Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds (American Methodist Clergyman)

Edward McKendree Bounds prominently known as E.M. Bounds, (1835–1913) was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is known for writing 11 books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. Only two of Bounds’ books were published before he died. After his death, Rev. Claudius Lysias Chilton, Jr., grandson of William Parish Chilton and admirer of Bounds, worked on preserving and preparing Bounds’ collection of manuscripts for publication. By 1921, more editorial work was being done by Rev. Homer W. Hodge.

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By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer, but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one’s self in God’s glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

God’s willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God’s ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray “with all perseverance”. We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them or die.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: God, Prayer

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

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.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well pleasing to God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him, by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and nothing more.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God’s purposes and man’s praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor’s door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Prayer puts God’s work in His hands—and keeps it there.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Prayer is our most formidable weapon; the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. “Choked to death” would be the coroner’s verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: 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 all other trades, makes perfect.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. it is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying or quit bad conduct.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens—this is hard work, but it is God’s work and man’s best labor.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Topics: Prayer

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