“Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.”E. M. Bounds
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E. M. Bounds, Preacher and Prayer Exact original-source attribution has not been independently verified.