Christian Maxims

[September]

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[Book of Jeremiah]

Who among us has not learned from his own experience that it requires another spirit than the world can give to follow Christ fully?

-William Gurnall

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

The fearful are those who march for hell, the valiant are they who take heaven by force.

-William Gurnall

 

[September]

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[Book of Jeremiah]

God uses the conscience to give some knowledge of His righteousness to all, so that no one can stand before Him on the Day of Judgment and plead ignorance.

-William Gurnall comment on Romans 1

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Conscience can be defined as that divine influence at work in man to restrain him from sin.
-William Gurnall

 

[September]

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[Book of Jeremiah]

The philosophy called humanism has long been a suitor of man's pride.
-William Gurnall

 

[September]

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[Book of Jeremiah]

Without God's strength, you cannot stand in the hour of testing.
-William Gurnall

 

[September]

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[Book of Jeremiah]

You can be absolutely certain that no sin is powerful enough to overwhelm God's strength.
-William Gurnall

 

[September]

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[Book of Jeremiah]

A person in a Christless, graceless state is naked and unarmed - totally unequipped to fight sin and Satan.
-William Gurnall

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

What a desperate condition, for a soul to be left to his own defense against legions of lusts and devils! He will be torn like a silly hare among a pack of hounds - no God to call them off, but Satan to urge them on!
-William Gurnall

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Only an ignorant fool is foolish enough to ride out of his castle unarmed during a siege! He obviously has not studied the enemy, or he would know what peril lies beyond his gates!
-William Gurnall

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Satan's conquests are limited to ignorant, graceless souls who have neither strength nor sense to oppose him,.
-William Gurnall

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Doubt your own strength, but never doubt Christ's!
-William Gurnall

 

[September]

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[Book of Jeremiah]

Friendship with sin and Satan is enmity toward God.
-William Gurnall