William Gurnall Quotes
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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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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
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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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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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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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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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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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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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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.