EM Bounds

We do more of everything else than of praying.

Ask of me is the one condition God puts in the very advance and triumph of His cause.

The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock in heaven by which Christ carries on His great work upon earth.

Prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

God shapes the world by prayer.

Unction is not the gift of genius. It is not found in the hall of learning. No eloquence can woo it. It is the gift of God.

Unction is the sweetest exhalation of the Holy Spirit.

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

They are not leaders because of brilliancy…but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.

Light praying will make light preaching. Prayer makes preaching strong.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Without prayerful preparation the hearer cannot hear to profit from the sermon.

The preachers who are the mightiest in their closets with God are the mightiest in their pulpits with men.

Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer.

Prayer puts the preacher's heart into the preacher's sermon; prayer puts the preacher's sermon into the preacher's heart.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

Praying makes the preacher a heart preacher.