William Gurnall Quotes
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.
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God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
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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!
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
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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.
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Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
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We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
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The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
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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