William Gurnall Quotes
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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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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
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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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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
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God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.