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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
William Gurnall
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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
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The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
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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.
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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!
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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).
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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.
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.
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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.
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Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
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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.
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
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The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
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