E.M. Bounds — Power Through Prayer

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in al…

Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salvo for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

We cannot run our spiritual operations on the prayers of the past generation.

The city of our God becomes the city of the dead; the Church a graveyard, not an embattled army. Praise and prayer are stifled; worship is dead. The preacher and the preaching have helped sin, not holiness; peopled hell,…

Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy, too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.