E. M. Bounds — in their own words
55 quotations, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from. Follow any of them into the full text — free, and without an account.
Power Through Prayer 6
Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor.
God’s true preachers have been distinguished by one great feature: they were men of prayer.
Prayer which is felt as a mighty force is the mediate or immediate product of much time spent with God.
The name and honor of Jesus Christ, the advance of his cause, must be all in all.
Prayer puts the preacher’s heart into the preacher’s sermon; prayer puts the preacher’s sermon into the preacher’s heart.
The past has not exhausted the possibilities nor the demands for doing great things for God.
Prayer and Praying Men 6
Nothing is too hard for prayer because nothing is too hard for God.
Nothing is clearer than that prayer has its only worth and significance in the great fact that God hears and answers prayer.
Prayer unites with the purposes of God and lays itself out to secure those purposes.
The prayer is made to God and the issue is with God.
God’s people were always safe when their princes were princes in prayer.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been holden.
Purpose in Prayer 6
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
No person is a soul-winner who is not an adept in the ministry of prayer.
The number and efficiency of the labourers in God’s vineyard in all lands is dependent on the men of prayer.
The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
Prayer is mighty in its operations, and God never disappoints those who put their trust and confidence in Him.
Every revival of which we have any record has been bathed in prayer.
The Essentials of Prayer 10
Prayer promotes the spirit of devotion, while devotion is favourable to the best praying.
Prayer without fervour is as a sun without light or heat, or as a flower without beauty or fragrance.
Prayer does not interpret God’s providences, but it does justify them and recognise God in them.
Prayer so prepares the heart that it softens under the disciplining hand of God.
God can afford to commit Himself in prayer to those who have fully committed themselves to God.
God wants consecrated men because they can pray and will pray.
The prayer life is the direct fruit of entire consecration to God.
Prayer is natural and almost spontaneous when compassion is begotten in the heart.
Prayer is intended for all men, because all men need God and need what God has and what prayer only can secure.
Prayer holds earth to heaven and brings heaven in close contact with earth.
The Necessity of Prayer 19
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
Faith in Christ is the basis of all working, and of all praying.
Christ holds Himself ready to supply exactly, and fully, all the demands of faith and prayer.
Faith is not an aimless act of the soul, but a looking to God and a resting upon His promises.
Faith is not believing just anything; it is believing God, resting in Him, trusting His Word.
The one prominent characteristic of the experience into which believers are brought through prayer, is not a life of works, but of faith.
Nothing short of being red hot for God, can keep the glow of heaven in our hearts, these chilly days.
To see God, to know God, and to live for God -- these form the objective of all true praying.
Nothing distinguishes the children of God so clearly and strongly as prayer.
Love of ease, spiritual indolence, religious slothfulness, all operate against this type of petitioning.
The spirit which prompts a man to break one commandment is the spirit which may move him to break them all.
To do God's will without demur, is the joy as it is the privilege of the successful praying-man.
Prayer is not a mere form of words; it is not just calling upon a Name.
The difficulty in prayer is not with faith, but with obedience, which is faith's foundation.
No man can pray -- really pray -- who does not obey.
The will must be surrendered to God as a primary condition of all successful praying.
The Christian soldier is to pray at all seasons, and under all circumstances.
The entire life of a Christian soldier -- its being, intention, implication and action -- are all dependent on its being a life of prayer.
Prayer is not simply to get things from God, but to make those things holy, which already have been received from Him.
The Reality of Prayer 8
God is so concerned that men pray that He has promised to answer prayer.
Prayer is the seeking of God’s great and greatest good, which will not come if we do not pray.
Prayer is the child’s request, not to the winds nor to the world, but to the Father.
Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.
God has everything to do with prayer, as well as everything to do with the one who prays.
Jesus Christ was always a busy man with His work, but never too busy to pray.
God’s Gospel has always waited more on prayer than on anything else for its successes.
Prayer is the only element in which the Holy Spirit can live and work.