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• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Kneeling, Praying

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• Caminando con Dios por la avenida de la oración adquirimos algo de su semejanza, e inconscientemente nos convertimos en testigos ante los demás de su belleza y su gracia.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Grace, Walking With God

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.27, CCEL

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• Creo que es mucho mejor empezar con Dios, ver primero su rostro, acercar mi alma a Él antes que a otro. En general, es mejor pasar al menos una hora a solas con Dios antes de hacer cualquier otra cosa.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Dios, Cristiano, Religioso

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• La fe, la esperanza, la paciencia y todas las fuerzas fuertes, hermosas y vitales de la piedad se marchitan y mueren en una vida sin oración. La vida del creyente individual, su salvación personal y las gracias cristianas personales tienen su ser, florecer y fructificar en la oración.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Beautiful, Christian, Strong

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• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Children, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.104, CCEL

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• Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Believe, Farce

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• The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Lasts, Firsts, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• Los que mejor conocen a Dios son los más ricos y poderosos en la oración. El poco conocimiento de Dios, y la extrañeza y frialdad hacia Él, hacen que la oración sea algo raro y débil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

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• The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Achievement

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.11, CCEL

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• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Growing, Purity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Hablar a los hombres para Dios es una gran cosa, pero hablar a Dios para los hombres es aún más grande. Nunca hablará bien y con verdadero éxito a los hombres para Dios quien no haya aprendido bien cómo hablar a Dios para los hombres.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Real, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Purpose

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Holiness, Praying, Christianity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Lawlessness, Anarchy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.6, CCEL

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• Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Office, Doe

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Quien está demasiado ocupado para rezar, estará demasiado ocupado para vivir una vida santa. Satanás preferiría que dejáramos crecer la hierba en el camino hacia nuestra cámara de oración antes que cualquier otra cosa.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Path, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Jesus, Prayer, Teaching

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• Ya no consideramos la oración como un deber que hay que cumplir, sino como un privilegio que hay que disfrutar, una rara delicia que siempre revela alguna belleza nueva.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Delight, Privilege

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Jesus

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.41, CCEL

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• 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.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Routine, Gone

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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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.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Favors, Privilege

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• Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Prayer, Would Be

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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• Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.39, CCEL

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• La oración tiene una importancia trascendental. La oración es el agente más poderoso para hacer avanzar la obra de Dios. Sólo los corazones y las manos que oran pueden hacer la obra de Dios. La oración tiene éxito cuando todo lo demás falla.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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