List of William Gurnall Quotes

How Many, Alas, Of The Precious Saints Of God Must We Shut Out From Being Believers, If There Is No Faith But What Amounts To Assurance.... Shall We Say Their Faith Went Away In The Departure Of Their Assurance?

How Can God Stoop Lower Than To Come And Dwell With A Poor Humble Soul? Which Is More Than If He Had Said, Such A One Should Dwell With Him; For A Beggar To Live At Court Is Not So Much As The King To Dwell With Him In His Cottage.

Compare Not Thyself With Those That Have Less Than Thyself, But Look On Those That Have Far Exceeded Thee.

God Hath Made It A Debt Which One Saint Owes To Another To Carry Their Names To A Throne Of Grace.

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.

Truly, Hope Is The Saint's Covering, Wherein He Wraps Himself, When He Lays His Body Down To Sleep In The Grave: "my Flesh," Saith David, "shall Rest In Hope."

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

It Is No Policy To Let Thy Lusts Have Arms, Which Are Sure To Rise And Declare Against Thee When Thine Enemy Comes.

The Devil Had As Good Have Let Paul Alone, For He No Sooner Comes Into Prison But He Falls A Preaching, At Which The Gates Of Satan's Prison Fly Open, And Poor Sinners Come Forth.

Whoever Hath A Seed Time Of Grace Pass Over His Soul, Shall Have His Harvest Time Also Of Joy.

Few Are Made Better By Prosperity, Whom Afflictions Make Worse.

The Grace Thou Hast Will Soon Be Less, If Thou Addest Not More To It.