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" The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

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" While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind. "

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" Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. "

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" 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. "

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" Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. "

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" The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change, but of the renewed life of the body and of the general judgment day. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence. "

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" Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world. "

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" The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men. "

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" Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. "

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" Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. "

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" Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions. "

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" 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. "

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" The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience. "

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" Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness. "

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. "

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" The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river. "

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" The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows. "

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" When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made. "

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" 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. "

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" Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth. "

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" Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. "

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" God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. "

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" We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit. "

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" Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. "

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" 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. "

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" It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. "

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