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“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.”
-- William Gurnall

#Men #Littles #Christianity
“Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).”
-- William Gurnall

#Christian #Eye #Blessing
“The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.”
-- William Gurnall

#Christian #Christianity
“The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.”
-- William Gurnall

#Teacher #Sin
“To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.”
-- William Gurnall

#Sin
“In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.”
-- William Gurnall

#Sleep #Night #Heaven
“It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.”
-- William Gurnall

#Weapons #Hell #Demon
“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.”
-- William Gurnall

#Strong #Children #Grace
“We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.”
-- William Gurnall

#Faith #Exercise #Live By
“Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.”
-- William Gurnall

#Heart #Christianity #Heavenly
“Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.”
-- William Gurnall

#Agreement #Doctrine #Scripture
“Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.”
-- William Gurnall

#Nero #Christianity #Prisoner
“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?”
-- William Gurnall

#Art #Strong #Men
“We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.”
-- William Gurnall

#Giving #Done #Receiving
“God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.”
-- William Gurnall

#Son #Blood #Saint
“God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.”
-- William Gurnall

#Christian #Children #Blessing
“Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.”
-- William Gurnall

#Running #Men #Blood
“The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.”
-- William Gurnall

#Prayer
“The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.”
-- William Gurnall

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Feds
“It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.”
-- William Gurnall

#Believe #Temptation #Saint
“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.”
-- William Gurnall

#Devil #Way #Instruments
“Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.”
-- William Gurnall

#Humble #Soul #Fearful
“Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.”
-- William Gurnall

#Prayer #Plot #Three
“Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.”
-- William Gurnall

#Doors #Venture #Sin
“Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.”
-- William Gurnall

#Echoes #Mercy #Conscience
“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.”
-- William Gurnall

#Keys #Promise #Suffering
“The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.”
-- William Gurnall

#Stronger #Chains
“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.”
-- William Gurnall

#Weapons
“He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.”
-- William Gurnall

#Purity #Traitor #Turns
“What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?”
-- William Gurnall

#Reading #Wine #Mean

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