“Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.”1
“We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.”
“Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.”
“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.”
“Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man’s interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.”
“No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.”
“Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held.”
“Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.”
“The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.”
“Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.”
“The Word of God is the fulcrum upon which the lever of prayer is placed, and by which things are mightily moved.”
“Prayer—secret fervent believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness.”
“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.”
“We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.”
“The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.”
“Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.”
“It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.”
“Walking with God down the avenues of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.”
“Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.”
“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.”
“Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings Him into active aid.”
“Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.”
“I would rather have prayer without words then words without prayer.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
E.M. Bounds Quotes (Author of Power Through Prayer)
TOP 25 QUOTES BY EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS (of 163) | A-Z Quotes
Inspirational Quotes by E.M. Bounds
74 E.M. Bounds Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
37 Life-Changing E.M Bounds Quotes On Prayer | Think About Such Things