William Gurnall Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Gurnall
William Gurnall Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
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.
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.
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
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost
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?
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.
We are justified, not by giving anything to God,
what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.
Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but
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
As Christ had his saints in Nero's court, so the devil his servants in the outward court of his visible church. Thou