William Gurnall Quotes
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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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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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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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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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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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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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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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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 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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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
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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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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
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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 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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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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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
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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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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).
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Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.
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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.