William Gurnall Quotes
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
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Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
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Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.
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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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Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
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The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
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What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?
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God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.
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Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
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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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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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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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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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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
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CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.
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Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.
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The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.
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Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.
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Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.
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All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
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Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.