E. M. Bounds
American Methodist minister and writer on prayer, 1835-1913
11 quotes.
Quotes by E. M. Bounds
- A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear and your heart full of God's Spirit is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.
- Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.
- God shapes the world by prayer.
- 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.
- If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
- Our ability to stay with God in our closet measures our ability to stay with God out of the closet.
- Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
- The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
- To be little with God is to be little for God.
- We live shabbily because we pray meanly.
- 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.