E. M. Bounds — Purpose in Prayer

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Dead men give out dead sermons, and dead sermons kill.

Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities—they are limited only by the omnipotence of God…

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

Pray for all men. We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.