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Power Through Prayer QUOTES

Power Through Prayer QUOTES

1 " God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it does demand the simplicity, the docility, humility, and faith of a child’s heart. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

2 " Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

3 " 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. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

4 " Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belongs essentially to our intercourse with God. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

5 " Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

6 " Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

7 " The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the blood and bones. Prayer is no petty duty, put into a corner; no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life; but it means that the best of our time, the heart of our time and strength must be given. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

8 " Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

9 " Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

10 " The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

11 " A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

12 " 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. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

13 " We have emphasized sermon-preparation until we have lost sight of the important thing to be prepared—the heart. A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

14 " 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. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

15 " There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer. The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a profession; it is a divine institution, a divine devotion. He is devoted to God. His aim, aspirations, ambition are for God and to God, and to such prayer is as essential as food is to life. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

16 " God wants elect men--men out of whom self and the world have gone by a severe crucifixion, by a bankruptcy which has so totally ruined self and the world that there is neither hope nor desire of recovery; men who by this insolvency and crucifixion have turned toward God perfect hearts. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

17 " God's revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it does demand the simplicity, the docility, humility, and faith of a child's heart. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

18 " Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean which defies resistance. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

19 " 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. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer

20 " The preaching that kills is non-spiritual preaching. The ability of the preaching is not from God. Lower sources than God have given to it energy and stimulant. The Spirit is not evident in the preacher nor his preaching. "

― E.M. Bounds , Power Through Prayer