William Gurnall Quotes

Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

One Almighty is more than all mighties

Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?

Least doers are the greatest boasters.

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.