William Gurnall Quotes

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• If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
• Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready…
• It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
• 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…
• 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…
• Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
• Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and…
• Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in…
• Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
• Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
• Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry,…
• God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
• 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…
• God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from…
• Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!
• 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,…
• 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…
• And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come,…
• Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
• 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…

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