The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on Prayer

your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week.

The preaching man is to be the praying man. Prayer is the preacher's mightiest weapon.

Prayer is humbling work. It abases intellect and pride, crucifies vainglory, and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are hard for flesh and blood to bear. It is easier not to pray than to bear them.

No man gets God who does not follow hard after him, and no soul follows hard after God who is not after him in early morn.

The requisites of true prayer are the requisites of scriptural, vital, personal religion. They are the requisites of real religious service in this life. Primary among these requisites is that in serving, we serve. So in…

Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

IF SOME CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers ' had, as it were, risen and stormed h…

Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

God's people were always safe when their princes were princes in prayer. An

We are sure that the truth of the matter is this: No one will or can command success and become a real praying soul unless intense application is the price. I am even now convinced that the difference between the saints…

Sad is the day in a Christian land, not only where there is the decay of prayer in the Church, but where sinners are so unaffected by the religion of the Church that they have no faith in prayer and care little about the…

Paul's praying and his commands and the urgency with which he pressed upon the Church to pray, is the most convincing proof of the absolute necessity of prayer as a great moral force in the world, an indispensable and in…

God can even affect the mind of a heathen ruler, and this he can do in answer to prayer without in the least overturning his free agency or forcing his will.

Jesus dwell at the fountain of my life; if the currents of His life have displaced and superseded all self-currents; if implicit obedience to Him be the inspiration and force of every movement of my life, then He can saf…

Unction in the preacher puts God in the gospel.

When trust is perfect and without doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand, ready to receive.

Prayer is faith passing into act. A union of the will and intellect realising in an intellectual act.

Walking with God down the avenues of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

ABOVE ALL things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear and your heart full of God's Spirit is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

Prayer for the preacher avails just as prayer by the preacher avails. Two things are always factors in the life and work of a true preacher: First when he prays constantly, fervently and persistently for those to whom he…

Prayer ' secret fervent believing prayer ' lies at the root of all personal godliness.

The deeper the desire, the stronger the prayer. Without desire, prayer is a meaningless mumble of words.

Prayer is the keynote of the most sanctified life, of the holiest ministry. He does the most for God who is the highest skilled in prayer.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed,' said the godly Dr. A. J. Gordon, 'but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

The Gospel, in its success and power, depends on our ability to pray.

When we calmly reflect upon the fact that the progress of our Lord's Kingdom is dependent upon prayer, it is sad to think that we give so little time to the holy exercise.