(Heb.

11:4)

Edward M. Bounds
Died
24th August 1913

 God’s Fatherhood gives shape, value and confidence to all our

praying.

 Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods;
God is looking for better men.

 Faith is but a channel of prayer. Faith gives it wings and

swiftness.

 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.

  If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He
will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
 What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better,
not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom
the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The
Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He
does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint
plans, but men, men of prayer.

 Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but
that He DOES bless, here and now! Trust always operates in the
present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the
present. Hope expects. Trust possesses.

 Not to be consumingly interested about the things of heaven is not

to be interested in them at all.

 Real prayer is prayer with a purpose – the definite and direct

utterance of one who knows that he has the ear of God, and that
God has the willingness as well as the power to grant the petition
which is asked of Him.

 The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of

living.

 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.

 Walking with God down the avenues of prayer we acquire

something of his likeness, and unconsciously we become
witnesses to others of his beauty and his grace.

 We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than

from many hours of rigorous study.
 Humility is an indispensable requisite to prayer. Prayer has no
beginning, no ending, and no being without humility. If you want
to learn well the art of praying, then learn well the lesson of
humility

 The church is not a democracy in which we have chosen God, but

a theocracy in which He has chosen us.

 Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and

accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in
faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full
bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.

 Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds
prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by 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.

 All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His
plans have death to self in them

 Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great.

Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment,
and more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought
to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and deprived hearts to
God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old
ways of purity and power. Nothing but the anointing of the Holy
Spirit can do this. 
 Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men
is greater still.

 There are, and there ought to be, stated seasons of communion

with God when, everything else shut out, we come into his
presence to talk to him and to let him speak to us; and out of
these seasons springs that beautiful habit of prayer that weaves a
golden bond between earth and heaven. Without such stated
seasons of prayer the habit of prayer can never be formed; without
them there is no nourishment for the spiritual life.

 Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

 Heads never make martyrs. It is the heart which surrenders the

life to love and fidelity. 

 Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. 

‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’

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