Top 100 William Gurnall Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.”

— William Gurnall

2. “It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.”

— William Gurnall

3. “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.”

— William Gurnall

4. “Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear.”

— William Gurnall

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5. “God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill.”

— William Gurnall

6. “The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.”

— William Gurnall

7. “We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.”

— William Gurnall

8. “The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.”

— William Gurnall

9. “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.”

— William Gurnall

10. “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.”

— William Gurnall

11. “To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.”

— William Gurnall

12. “Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.”

— William Gurnall

13. “God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child’s garments.”

— William Gurnall

14. “One Almighty is more than all mighties.”

— William Gurnall

15. “The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.”

— William Gurnall

16. “Job’s friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.”

— William Gurnall

17. “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.”

— William Gurnall

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18. “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.”

— William Gurnall

19. “The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.”

— William Gurnall

20. “The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.”

— William Gurnall

21. “Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.”

— William Gurnall

22. “We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.”

— William Gurnall

23. “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.”

— William Gurnall

24. “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!”

— William Gurnall

25. “Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!”

— William Gurnall

26. “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.”

— William Gurnall

27. “When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.”

— William Gurnall

28. “If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.”

— William Gurnall

29. “It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.”

— William Gurnall

30. “Pride of gifts robs us of God’s blessing in the use of them.”

— William Gurnall

31. “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.”

— William Gurnall

32. “The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.”

— William Gurnall

33. “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.”

— William Gurnall

34. “Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.”

— William Gurnall

35. “Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.”

— William Gurnall

36. “We are justified, not by giving anything to God, – what we do, – but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.”

— William Gurnall

37. “Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.”

— William Gurnall

38. “We are bid to take, not to make our cross.”

— William Gurnall

39. “Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.”

— William Gurnall

40. “The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.”

— William Gurnall

41. “Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God’s Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.”

— William Gurnall

42. “Least doers are the greatest boasters.”

— William Gurnall

43. “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.”

— William Gurnall

44. “Christ is the door that opens into God’s presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.”

— William Gurnall

45. “As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king’s highway.”

— William Gurnall

46. “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.”

— William Gurnall

47. “Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.”

— William Gurnall

48. “What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?”

— William Gurnall

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49. “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.”

— William Gurnall

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50. “Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.”

— William Gurnall