William Gurnall (1616 – 12 October 1679) was an English author and Anglican clergyman born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he was baptised on 17 November 1616.
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.
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's. . . But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?. . . We read of no dispatches sent to court to procure his liberty; but many to the churches, to help them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free. . . 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.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
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.
Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
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.
Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
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.