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

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

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 recognize 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