Edward McKendree Bounds

Edward McKendree Bounds (15 August 1835 – 24 August 1913) was a Methodist minister and author of books, chiefly on prayer.

Quotes

• Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.
• Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
  • The Weapon of Prayer.

• God shapes the world by prayer.
  • Purpose in Prayer (1920), p. 9.

• In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.
  • Last card to Homer W. Hodge, dated 26 June 1913.

• Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
  • Power Through Prayer.