William Gurnall Quotes

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

I know I'm a sinner.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

He that does evil hates the light.

I am a big sinner.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Sin carries in it its own misery.