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The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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Edward McKendree Bounds
Age: 78 †
Born: 1835
Born: August 15
Died: 1913
Died: August 24
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Shelby County
Missouri
E. M. Bounds
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Praying
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Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
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Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
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Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
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A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire no prayer without flame.
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The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.
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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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