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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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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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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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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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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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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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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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
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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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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
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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.