Edward McKendree Bounds
Edward McKendree Bounds
Edward McKendree Boundsprominently known as E.M. Bounds, was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is known for writing 11 books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. Only two of Bounds' books were published before he died. After his death, Rev. ClaudiusLysias Chilton, Jr., grandson of William Parish Chilton and admirer of Bounds, worked on preserving and preparing Bounds' collection of manuscripts for publication. By 1921, more editorial work was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 August 1835
CountryUnited States of America
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
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.
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
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.
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.
Prayer succeeds when all else fails