Pastor and Prayer Quotes

“This generation may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization, and its betterment by the increase of holiness and Christlikeness by the energy of prayer.”
― E.M. Bounds, Pastor and Prayer: Why and How Pastors Ought to Pray

“What the church needs today is not more and better machinery, not new organizations or more innovative methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use – men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.”
― E.M. Bounds, Pastor and Prayer: Why and How Pastors Ought to Pray

“It behooves us always to pray and not faint. – Luke 18:1b Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last only an hour or two. Your life preaches all through the week. If Satan can make a covetous minister out of a lover of praise, pleasure, and good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer and get your texts, your thoughts, and your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer. – Robert Murray McCheyne”
― E.M. Bounds, Pastor and Prayer: Why and How Pastors Ought to Pray