William Gurnall

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

— William Gurnall

“The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.”

— William Gurnall

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

— William Gurnall

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

— William Gurnall

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

— William Gurnall

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

— William Gurnall

CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

— William Gurnall

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

— William Gurnall

Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul…

— William Gurnall

“Faith and repentance will be good doctrine to preach and hear to the end of the world; you”

— William Gurnall

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

— William Gurnall

“Be not Christians by halves, but go through with it; the thorough Christian is the true Christian.”

— William Gurnall

“Gospel peace comforts the soul, and that strongly, when it hath no other comfort to mingle with it.”

— William Gurnall

“It is faith stills the storm which sin had raised—faith that changed his doleful note into joy and gladness.”

— William Gurnall

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

— William Gurnall

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

— William Gurnall

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child…

— William Gurnall

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your…

— William Gurnall

“There is no more difference betwixt a hypocrite and an apostate, than betwixt a green apple and a ripe one; come a…

— William Gurnall

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's…

— William Gurnall

God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God…

— William Gurnall

“Neither did the Pharisees in truth believe what Moses wrote, because they opposed Christ, who did but verify what Moses before from…

— William Gurnall

“Prayer is a great heart-easer; it breathes out those distempered passions which, being bound up in others, break out when God at…

— William Gurnall

“Christ did not redeem and save poor souls by sitting in majesty on his heavenly throne, but by hanging on the shameful…

— William Gurnall

And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort…

— William Gurnall

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God;…

— William Gurnall

“They are all such notions as never came into the heart of the wisest sophists in the world to conceive of; and…

— William Gurnall

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin…

— William Gurnall

“It hath been the constant practice of the saints in all their dangers and straits, whether from enemies within or without, from…

— William Gurnall

“Sometimes the soul is questioning whether it [has] any patience, any faith, till God comes and puts him into an afflicted estate,…

— William Gurnall

Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground…

— William Gurnall

Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom…

— William Gurnall

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

— William Gurnall

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

— William Gurnall

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

— William Gurnall

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

— William Gurnall

We are bid to take, not to make our cross.

— William Gurnall

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

— William Gurnall

Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.

— William Gurnall

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

— William Gurnall