William Gurnall
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.Collection: Trust
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.Collection: Fear
We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.Collection: Weapons
It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.Collection: Weapons
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 in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).Collection: Christian
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.Collection: God
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.Collection: Sleep
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.Collection: Running
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.Collection: Heart
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.Collection: Christian
Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.Collection: Doors
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 strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.Collection: Prayer
A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.Collection: Gun
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.Collection: Agreement
God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.Collection: Son
The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.Collection: Christian
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 easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.Collection: Son
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.Collection: Prayer
We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.Collection: Giving
One Almighty is more than all mightiesCollection: Christianity
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.Collection: Sin
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!Collection: Art
Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.Collection: Echoes
Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.Collection: Enemy
Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.Collection: Imperfection
Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.Collection: Christian
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.Collection: Looks
It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.Collection: Lust
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.Collection: Spiritual
How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.Collection: Kings
Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.Collection: Light
Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perishCollection: Christian
Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.Collection: Harvest Time
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 ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Rocks
And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort is not come, know it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends. The Spirit of God by his convictions comes into the soul with some terrors, but it closeth with peace and joy.Collection: Christian
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 to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.Collection: Art
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.Collection: Nero
There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.Collection: Devil
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.Collection: Naked
The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.Collection: Taken
It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.Collection: Knows
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.Collection: Saint
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.Collection: Names
Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.Collection: Christian
The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.Collection: Christian
Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.Collection: Men
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Believe
We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.Collection: Crosses