Edward McKendree Bounds quotes

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel. (Edward McKendree Bounds)
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
God shapes the world by prayer. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
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. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation. (Edward McKendree Bounds)
The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body. (Edward McKendree Bounds)
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds