365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

I heard of old that Jesus, Who still remains the same, To publicans gave welcome, And sinners deep in shame. Oh God! receive me with them, Me also welcome in, And pardon my transgression, Forgetting all my sin. Thomas William Glamorganshire 1761-1844 (Original in Welsh)

The best way to fight against sin is to fight it on our knees. Philip Henry 1630-1696

Every knowledge in comparison of that of Christ, is but loss and dung; to know him is everlasting life. John Elias 1774-1841

There are many who complain that they can scarcely remember anything they hear. Have done with your lying. I'll be bound to say you remember well what you sold your old white horse for at Llandaff fair three years ago. Six or seven pounds was it? Certainly that has not escaped your memory. You can remember anything but the Gospel! Thomas Jenkin (Siencyn Penhydd) 1746-1807  

... That we may in our Prayers and Meditations conceive aright of his Divine Majesty and not according to those gross and blasphemous Imaginations which naturally arise in Men's Brains, as when they conceive God to be like an old man sitting in a chair and the blessed to be like that Tripartite Idol which Papists have painted in their Church windows Lewis Bayly 1575-1631

They who would go to heaven, must expect crosses in the way. The Israelites no sooner begin their journey, than they are in want of water ... Nor was their condition much mended at Marah, where, though there was plenty, it was ... not fit for drink. Our expected comforts are thus in the possession often embittered, in order to lead us to the Fountain of living waters. Thomas Coke 1747-1814

Nothing is so valuable an acquisition as an immortal soul: one such won to Christ is better than the riches of both the Indies. Death eternal, of body and soul, is the wages of sin; and unless we are saved from it now, we must be undone for ever. Thomas Coke 1747-1814

Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. ... Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry in public, with facility and acceptance. Christmas Evans 1766-1838

If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone. Philip Henry 1630-1696