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 GurnallThe Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
William GurnallPray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
William GurnallIt is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William GurnallThe 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 GurnallBid 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.
William Gurnall