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E. M. Bounds Quotes: We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and nothing more.
         

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and nothing more.


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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and nothing more.
         



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Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.



All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.



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.

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.



It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.



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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.



Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.




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.

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.



God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil



The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.





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