God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
Edward McKendree BoundsTo give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.
Edward McKendree BoundsPreaching 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.
Edward McKendree BoundsWe can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
Edward McKendree BoundsWhat 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.
Edward McKendree Bounds