154 Quotes by William Gurnall

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

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.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

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

Least doers are the greatest boasters.

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.