William Gurnall Quotes
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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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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The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
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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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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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Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.
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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.
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God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
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We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.
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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.
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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.
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
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As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.
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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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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.
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Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
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The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.
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CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.
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Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.