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141 " He is always at church before the preacher is in the pulpit or a member in the pew, to hinder the sower, to impoverish the soil, or to blast the seed, that is, when courage and faith are in the pulpit, and zeal and prayer in the pew. But if dead orthodoxy or live heterodoxy are in the pulpit, he then puts in his time elsewhere at some point of danger. "
― E.M. Bounds , Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow
142 " Preachers are preeminently God’s leaders. They are primarily responsible for the condition of the Church. They shape its character, give tone and direction to its life. "
― E.M. Bounds , The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer
143 " Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed. "
144 " Jesus is to be always praying through His people. “And men shall pray for Him continually.” “For My house shall be called a house of prayer for My peoples.” We must prepare ourselves to pray; to be like Christ, to pray like Christ. "
145 " Church activities may so engage and absorb us as to hinder praying, and when this is the case, evil results always follow. It is better to let the work go by default than to let the praying go by neglect. "
― E.M. Bounds , The Weapon of Prayer
146 " No ministry can succeed without much praying, and this praying must be fundamental, ever-abiding, ever-increasing. The text, the sermon, should be the result of prayer. The study should be bathed in prayer, all its duties so impregnated with prayer, its whole spirit the spirit of prayer. "
147 " We do everything else for the heathen save the thing God wants us to do; the only thing which does any good—makes all else we do efficient. "
148 " To graduate in the school of prayer is to master the whole course of a religious life. The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. "
149 " The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. "
150 " Nothing advances Satan’s work with more skilful and readier hands than to be ignorant of Satan and his ways. "
151 " Everything is tame and feeble because our praying is so tame and feeble. God "
152 " They lacked everything which goes to make up spiritual life, and force, and self-denying piety, and vainly supposed themselves to need nothing but material wealth, thus making temporal possessions a substitute for spiritual wealth, leaving God entirely out of their activities, relying upon human and material resources to do the work only possible to the divine and supernatural, and secured alone by prayer. "
153 " These men prayed not occasionally, not a little at regular or at odd times; but they so prayed that their prayers entered into and shaped their characters; "
154 " And when they had ordained them elders in every Church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. "
155 " To escape his snare, we must not only have a strong faith in the fact that Satan is, but also must have a most intimate knowledge of him and of his plans and many-sided ways. "
156 " The real sermon is made in the closet. "
157 " Fortunate is that Church whose leaders are men of prayer. Happy is that congregation who are contemplating the erection of a church to have leaders who will lay its foundations in prayer, and whose walls go up side by side with prayer. "
158 " The progress to consummation of God’s work in this world has two basic principles—God’s ability to give and man’s ability to ask. "
159 " Put the saints everywhere to praying, is the burden of the apostolic effort and the key note of apostolic success. "
160 " When trust is perfect and without doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand, ready to receive. "