365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

An able minister of the New Testament, must be a truly evangelical minister, or a minister not of the letter, but of the Spirit. Hugh Evans 1712-1781

Take faith's strong shield, the arrows to repel, The deadly shafts, shot by the prince of hell. A lively faith in Christ will always cool The fiery darts thrown from the flaming pool. Take thou the Scripturc's keen, two-edged sword Take thou the mighty sabre of the Word For that's the trenchant blade, which, at a blow, Can cut and cleave our fierce infernal foe. Ficer Rhys Prichard 1579–1644

Live daily on Christ as your spiritual food and seek hourly communion with him as the beloved of your ; ouls let it appear to all around you by your heavenly temper and amiable conversation that you are indeed the sincere disciples and the intimate friends of Jesus ... Benjamin Francis 1734=1799

Let the oldest believer remember that Satan is older. Thomas Rhys Davies 1790-1859

There is nothing so hard to die as sin. An atom may kill a giant, a word may break the peace of a nation, a spark burn up a city but it requires earnest and protracted struggles to destroy sin in the soul. David Thomas 1813-1894

On the bed of languishing there is no such sympathising and supporting friend to be found for love or for money (as the Bible). And what singularly belongs to him, he will accompany you through death as far as you need him and will point out a bright world before you as an everlasting inheritance where you will want him no more but shall eternally enjoy all the rich promises therein made to you and will find them all there to be yea and amen to your never ending consolation/ Thomas Charles (1755-1814)

It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large. Griffith John 1831-1812

O to remain under the drops of the sanctuary until the evening, and to acknowledge that they have been purchased by blood. This would make sinners drop to the dust. O to be at the feet of our good God as long as we are in the world. Ann Griffiths 1768-1805 (original in Welsh)

... if any injury be offered to thee, bear it as a Christian with patience. Never was an innocent man wronged but if he patiently bore his cross he overcame in the end. But if thy good name in the meanwhile is wounded, bear that also with patience for he that at the last day will give thy body a resurrection will as sure in his good time grant a resurrection to thy good name. Lewis Bayly 1575-1631

Every child of Adam may honestly say if I had been in his place it is certain I should have done as he did This ought to reconcile us to the old father. William Williams of Wern 1781-1840

Our immortal souls although in perishable bodies are evidently originally birds of Paradise and our faculties are the beautiful wings by which we understand remember fear believe love hope and delight in immortal and eternal things. Christmas Evans

So do not expect always to get an emotional charge or a feeling of quiet peace when you read the Bible. By the grace of God you may expect that to be a frequent experience, but often you will get no emotional response at all. Let the Word break over your heart and mind again and again as the years go by, and imperceptibly there will come great changes in your attitude and outlook and conduct. You will probably be the last to recognise these. Geoffrey  Thomas

Sorrow is sin’s echo, and as the echo answers the voice best where there are broken walls and ruined buildings to return it, so is sorrow when reverberated by a broken ruined heart. Philip Henry 1630-1696