About William Gurnall: William Gurnall was an English author and clergyman born at King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
Above all sins, guard against bold or arrogant ones. You are not beyond the danger of such. If caught in the web of presumptuous sin, call quickly to God for help. If you hesitate, you only give Satan time to entangle you more tightly. But if you cry...
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
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.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
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 that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
