Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913) — Prediger · Methodistisch · USA

Edward McKendree Bounds war ein US-amerikanischer methodistischer Pastor und Publizist, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Süden der Vereinigten Staaten wirkte. Er wurde vor allem durch seine Schriften über die Dringlichkeit des Gebetslebens bekannt, diente im Bürgerkrieg nach vorangegangener Inhaftierung jedoch als Kaplan in der konföderierten Armee. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnen seine Texte als praxisnahe Erinnerung daran, theologische Lehre mit persönlicher Gebetsdisziplin zu verbinden.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Church & Congregation, Faith & Trust, Discipleship, Growth & Character, Guidance & God's Will, Witness & Mission, Humility & Pride

Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer puts God’s work in his hands–and keeps it there.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Speaking to people about God may be very good and commendable. But speaking to God about people is far more valuable and commendable.
Edward McKendree Bounds

When faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The Lord's church today does not need, first of all, new organizations and methods, but men and women of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

A life that spends its days in fellowship with God is a life that moves the world.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The greatest need of the church of Jesus is not men of much money or clever minds, but men who can pray.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is not learned in the classroom but in the closet.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
Edward McKendree Bounds

A church on its knees would bring heaven down to earth.
Edward McKendree Bounds

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Whoever has learned the art of speaking with God will also succeed in speaking with people.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Through the paths of intercessory prayer we come into the most fruitful fields of spiritual growth and reap the most precious riches.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Throughout all ages, it has been those who prayed who carried out God's plan on earth.
Edward McKendree Bounds

It belongs to the divine plan that spiritual riches flow through the channel of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The life, effectiveness, and driving force of God's work is shaped by praying people.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Give every tool you have to the Lord, take your firm stand courageously, and trust God to use what you hold in your hand to accomplish great things for his glory.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Praying makes the preacher a heart preacher. Prayer puts the preacher’s heart into the preacher’s sermon; prayer puts the preacher’s sermon into the preacher’s heart.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The preachers who are the mightiest in their closets with God are the mightiest in their pulpits with men.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Without preparation the hearer cannot hear to profit. The sermon may fail because the preacher has failed in prayerful and thoughtful preparation; [but] the sermon may [also] fail because of the [lack] of thorough preparation in the pew.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The church is not a democracy in which we have chosen God, but a theocracy in which He has chosen us. The church is the only society in the world that never loses any of its members, even by death. The church upon its knees would bring heaven upon the earth.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Whoever does not pray at set times will not pray at unset times either.
Edward McKendree Bounds

To be devoted to God and devoted to prayer are one and the same thing.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The best and greatest offering the church can bring to God is prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

To give prayer second place means to make God secondary in everyday life.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The true and unmistakable mark of a genuine work of God is the prevailing spirit of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Light praying will make light preaching. Prayer makes preaching strong. [The God who answers prayer does this]…and makes it stick.
Edward McKendree Bounds

If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will.
Edward McKendree Bounds

We can do nothing without prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is absolutely necessary to carry out God's work properly.
Edward McKendree Bounds

In reality, a refusal of prayer is also a refusal of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds

In today's age, the church of Jesus Christ urgently needs people who have learned the ministry of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Preaching has little value unless it stands in direct connection with prayer. New Testament preaching exists only where New Testament prayer exists.
Edward McKendree Bounds

To keep the church on God's course and to make it useful to God, praying leaders are urgently needed.
Edward McKendree Bounds

People who are influential in all things but small in prayer cannot carry out the work of almighty God which he has entrusted to his church in this world.
Edward McKendree Bounds

The people God seeks and relies on must commit themselves to prayer as they would to worldly endeavor.
Edward McKendree Bounds

If prayer remains confined to oneself and one's own needs, it soon dies of smallness, narrowness, and selfishness.
Edward McKendree Bounds

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Sources: wikipedia.org, insightforliving.ca, iblp.org, tribune.org

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