October 25, 2026
What E. M. Bounds Still Knows
A public-domain paper on prayer from E. M. Bounds, presented for focused reading and spiritual formation.
The old prayers have very little interest in making us impressive. They keep asking for mercy, light, purity, patience, and a heart that can survive contact with reality.
If the line feels severe, stay with it. Severity in the saints is often just mercy without cosmetics.
Source boundary: this post reflects on More Praying And Better Is The Secret Of The Whole Matter. More Time For, attributed in the corpus to E. M. Bounds. No outside sources used.