William Gurnall Quotes
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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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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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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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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
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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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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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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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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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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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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
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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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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.
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
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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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As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.
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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
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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
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God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.
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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).