Gems of Thought: For Every Day in the Year
Gems of Thought gathers short, striking extracts from William Gurnall's monumental classic The Christian in Complete Armour, arranged as one reading for each day of the year. It distills Gurnall's rich, image-laden counsel on prayer, temptation, and the believer's warfare against sin and Satan into bite-sized daily meditations, offering an accessible entry point into one of the deepest treatments of practical holiness in the Puritan tradition.
Based on The Christian in Complete Armour by William Gurnall (1655-1662)
From the book
In William Gurnall's own words
“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.”
“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.”
“Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument.”