"Justifying faith is not a naked assent to……" — William Gurnall
"Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel."
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William Gurnall
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97 Quotes by William Gurnall
William Gurnall has 97 quotes on this site.
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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken…
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their…
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Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so…
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but…
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Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are…
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Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had…
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not…
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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God…
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by…
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
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More Assent Quotes
This quote is filed under Assent Quotes,
one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
— Pindar
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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this…
— Thomas Kuhn
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And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,…
— David Hume
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The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
— Ray Krone
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul…
— Jessica Powers
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It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State,…
— James Madison
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely…
— Charles Hodge
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Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of…
— Ermanno Bencivenga
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Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.
— Millard Fuller
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