Edward McKendree Bounds Praying Quotations

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

He who would pray, must obey.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

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

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.