Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
Edward McKendree BoundsPrayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
Edward McKendree BoundsThe only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
Edward McKendree BoundsThe reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.
Edward McKendree BoundsImportunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.
Edward McKendree Bounds