Quotes from William Gurnall

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

Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

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

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 sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

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

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

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

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

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

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

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

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

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

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

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

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.

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.

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

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.