365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

The Bible ... You can converse with him any hour of the day or night, silently and privately. And his advice is that of the highest wisdom and goodness and may be safely relied on and followed. You cannot do better than follow his directions in all things. The information he gives you is of the greatest importance and divinely gracious. He will also tell you the same story over again and again a thousand times with the greatest patience if you have time and inclination to listen to his instructive tale. Thomas Charles (1755-1814)

Looking unto Jesus and considering him, is the very life of the soul every step of the way. Whilst the eye is there, faith and patience cannot fail, the soul will be neither weary nor faint. Whilst we are looking unto him and considering him, we cannot but take up the cross, and follow him under the cross, shame, and contradiction. Thomas Charles 1755-1814

There is a little girl only five years and a half old who can repeat distinctly above one hundred chapters and goes on learning a chapter every week besides the catechism and searching the scriptures for passages on different points in divinity. Thomas Charles 1755-1814

(The Bible) contains all the information, counsel and direction which we can want in every case and under all circumstances. It directs you to God through Christ that you may be at peace with him and take him for your everlasting portion and friend. It directs you how you are to be made holy that you may thereby be rendered meet for the enjoyment of your God and how you are to walk in all things so as to please him. ... Make the Bible your friend and constant companion. When you have a family if ever feed your family with it and let them have daily the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Thomas Charles (1755-1814)

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)

We are here in the furnace, but after we have suffered a little we shall come out purified. Thomas Charles 1755-1814

We can never trust too little in man, nor too much in God. I am convinced of this by daily experience. Our main point and study should be to keep close to God in daily communion; and he will take care of us and of all that belong to us. Has he given his Son to die for us; and will he not take care of us the few days we are on our journey to our Father's house?  Thomas Charles 1755-1814

A true Christian zeal is the most humble, mild and benevolent temper that can influence the hearts of men or angels. It is the fervour of Divine love; and "love is kind; vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up; is not easily provoked, but bears all things." Bitterness and wrath against any persons, even against avowed enemies, are as different from Christian zeal, as darkness is from light. Thomas Charles  1755-1814

This I firmly believe - that it is not sufficient to make a minister of the gospel, to have a system of wholesome doctrines in the head, except he is led by the Holy Spirit to see and feel the glory of the person of Christ and the excellency of the work accomplished by him for sinners. Thomas Charles 1755-1814