William Gurnall Quotes

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

This is thy birth-day; thou wert before, but beganst to live when Christ began to live in thee. The

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.

Satan's power is ministerial, appointed by God for the service and benefit of the saints. It

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

Least doers are the greatest boasters.

When thou art come to thyself to own and blush at the brutish ignorance of thy mind, thou art fit to be admitted into Christ's school. If

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?

The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look

It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster. Send

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.

It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

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.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

Faith and repentance will be good doctrine to preach and hear to the end of the world; you

apply thyself to the use of those means which God hath appointed for the strengthening grace. If

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

It is not, indeed, the bare knowing the truths of the gospel saves; but the gross ignorance of them, to be sure, will damn souls.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

One Almighty is more than all mighties

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

And they cannot be solid Christians, that are not instructed in the grounds of Christianity. The

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.

O how true are poor sinners to the devil's trust!

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,
what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.

Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency.

one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

As Christ had his saints in Nero's court, so the devil his servants in the outward court of his visible church. Thou

CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

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.

Thou art translated into the kingdom of Christ, but thou art a great way from his court. That

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

Christ is a prince that loves to see his people thrive and grow rich under his government. This

He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

We are bid to take, not to make our cross.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

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.

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.