Explore Quotes by William Gurnall

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.

Least doers are the greatest boasters.

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

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

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

As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

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

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.