William Gurnall Quotes
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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 longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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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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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
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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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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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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
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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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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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As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.
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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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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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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
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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.