The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer Quotes

“God shapes the world by prayer.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a profession; it is a divine institution, a divine devotion. He is devoted to God. His aim, aspirations, ambition are for God and to God, and to such prayer is as essential as food is to life.”
― E. M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds

“We must remember that the goal of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained the prayer has utterly failed.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“Few Christians have anything but a vague idea of the power of prayer; fewer still have any experience of that power. The Church seems almost wholly unaware of the power God puts into her hand; this spiritual carte blanche on the infinite resources of God’s wisdom and power is rarely, if ever, used—never used to the full measure of honouring God.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“Topical preaching, polemical preaching, historical preaching, and other forms of sermonic output have, one supposes, their rightful and opportune uses. But expository preaching—the prayerful expounding of the Word of God is preaching that is preaching—pulpit effort par excellence.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer: Experience the Wonders of God through Prayer

“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.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on Prayer

“The Gospel, in its success and power, depends on our ability to pray.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on 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. III .................. WHEN”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on 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.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on Prayer

“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.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on Prayer

“The law of prayer, the right to pray, rests on sonship.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. Paul calls it a striving, an agony.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“George Muller, that remarkable man of such simple yet strong faith in God, a man of prayer and Bible reading, founder and promoter of the noted orphanage in England, which cared for hundreds of orphan children, conducted the institution solely by faith and prayer. He never asked a man for anything, but simply trusted in the Providence of God, and it is a notorious fact that never did the inmates of the home lack any good thing. From his paper he always excluded money matters, and financial difficulties found no place in it. Nor would he mention the sums which had been given him, nor the names of those who made contributions. He never spoke of his wants to others nor asked a donation. The story of his life and the history of this orphanage read like a chapter from the Scriptures. The secret of his success was found in this simple statement made by him: “I went to my God and prayed diligently, and received what I needed.” That was the simple course which he pursued. There was nothing he insisted on with greater earnestness than that, be the expenses what they might be, let them increase ever so suddenly, he must not beg for anything. There was nothing in which he took more delight and showed more earnestness in telling than that he had prayed for every want which ever came to him in his great work. His was a work of continuous and most importunate praying, and he always confidently claimed that God had guided him throughout it all. A stronger proof of a divine providence, and of the power of simple faith and of answered prayer, cannot be found in Church history or religious biography.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“Mr. Wesley spent two hours daily in prayer. He began at four in the morning. Of him, one who knew him well wrote: “He thought prayer to be more his business than anything else, and I have seen him come out of his closet with a serenity of face next to shining.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“The praying of Jesus Christ drew on the mightiest forces of His being. His prayers were His sacrifices, which He offered before He offered Himself on the cross for the sins of mankind. Prayer-sacrifice is the forerunner and pledge of self-sacrifice. We must die in our closets before we can die on the cross.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds

“Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“Prayer is the outstretched arms of the child for the Father’s help.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“He is the wisest man who prays the most and the best.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“To have God thus near is to enter the holy of holies—to breathe the fragrance of the heavenly air, to walk in Eden’s delightful gardens. Nothing but prayer can bring God and man into this happy communion.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it had bridled the rage of lions, hushed the anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.—Chrysostom”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“God commands men to pray, and so not to pray is plain disobedience to an imperative command of Almighty God.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“None but praying leaders can have praying followers. Praying apostles will beget praying saints. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need some body who can set the saints to this business of praying.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer.—John Wesley”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on the men who proclaim it.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds

“Moses lived near God, and had the freest and most unhindered and boldest access to God, but this, instead of abating the necessity of prayer, made it more necessary, obvious and powerful. Familiarity”
― E.M. Bounds, Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer (with Active Table of Contents) [Annotated]

“The deeper the desire, the stronger the prayer. Without desire, prayer is a meaningless mumble of words.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on Prayer

“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 preaches; and secondly, when those to whom he ministers pray for their preacher.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on Prayer

“The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds: Power Through Prayer, The Reality of Prayer, The Essentials of Prayer, The Weapon of Prayer, Satan: His Personality, Power And Overthrow and More

“Prayer — secret fervent believing prayer — lies at the root of all personal godliness.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E.M Bounds on Prayer

“Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds: Power Through Prayer; Prayer and Praying Men; The Essentials of Prayer; The Necessity of Prayer; The Possibilities ... Purpose in Prayer; The Weapon of Prayer