365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

He is called the Rose of Sharon, Handsome, radiant, fair of face, He excels by far ten thousand Splendid sights in time and space; Friend of sinners, Here’s their pilot on the sea. Ann Griffiths 1778-1805 (original in Welsh)

O! to drink on high for ever, Where salvation’s waters rise, Drink, till I no longer thirst for Transient things the earth supplies; Ann Griffiths 1778-1805 (original in Welsh)

O, my head should be all waters, Weeping day and night away: Zion’s army, with its banners, Melts before the heat of day; O reveal again the pillars, Mainstay through her night of loss, God’s own promises, unchanging, Sealed supremely on the cross. Ann Griffiths 1778-1805 (original in Welsh)

I am cheered by the thought that a sinner is free to speak so much of Jesus Christ before the throne of grace, with heaven smiling and hell trembling. Let us magnify our privilege that we have known something of the effects of the eternal covenant decreed above. Ann Griffiths 1768-1805 (original in Welsh)

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)

I have found much pleasure in meditating on the Shunammite woman setting aside a room on the wall for the man of God to rest in when he passed by, placing in it a bed, a table, a stool and a candlestick. Perhaps that woman, in her longing for the prophet, often paced the room, and found cheer in expectation of the man. But be that as it may, it comforts the heart of a believer, in the absence of the visible countenance of his Lord, that the furniture is still there in some senses. For one thing, it is a sign that he has not been given up. For another thing, it is too hot a lodging for a devil. ‘When the enemy shall come in like a strong river, the Spirit of the Lord shall chase him out.’ Ann Griffiths 1768-1805 (original in Welsh)

I see more need than ever to spend my remaining days in giving myself up daily and continually, body and soul, into the care of him who ‘is able to keep that which is given unto him against that day’. Not to give myself once, but to live constantly giving myself, right up to and in the moment when I put away this tabernacle. Ann Griffiths  1778-1805 (original in Welsh)

Dear sister, it is such a great privilege that one’s condition can be found reflected in God’s Word. O to hold it up to the holy mirror to the end of making use of a Mediator. Ann Griffiths 1776-1805 (original in Welsh)

See him stand among the myrtles, Object worthy of my mind, Though I only partly know him, Over all things, unconfined; Hail that morning, When I see him as he is. Ann Griffiths 1778-1805 (original in Welsh)

I have been finding it very stormy for a long time now. Very many disappointments in myself continually. But I must say this, that all trials, all winds of whatever sort, work together thus, namely to bring me to see more of my wretched condition by nature, and more of the Lord in his goodness and unchangeableness towards me. Ann Griffiths 1768-1805 (original in Welsh)