365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

(In 1 Corinthians 2:8) the contrast between "they crucified" and "the Lord of glory" is intentional (cf Heb xii. 2). Christ was put to death by the rulers of the world as the representatives of its highest wisdom, which has proved itself foolishness in not knowing the Son of God. The triumphant antithesis to this verse is Gal. vi. 14. The world that crucified Christ has been crucified by the power of Christ's cross. Thomas Charles Edwards 1837-1900

Jesus Christ is still the same One. If He was worthy that Stephen and James should die for His sake He is worthy of our allegiance too. Yea He will be the same for ever. When the world has passed away with its fashion and its lust, when the earth and the works that are therein are burned up and dissolved, Jesus Christ abides. What He was yesterday to His martyr Stephen that He is to all that follow Him in earth's today and that He will for ever be when He shall have appeared unto them who expect Him unto salvation. Thomas Charles Edwards 1837-1900

We must not say that the spirits of the righteous have departed from us, let us rather say that we by being made righteous have come to them. We stand now before the tribunal of God the Judge of all. Jesus has fulfilled His promise to come and receive us unto Himself that where He is there we may be also. Thomas Charles Edwards 1837-1900

It is true that conscience is essentially the power which sets a man in God's presence. But eating and abstaining from eating are things indifferent. God condemns neither the one nor the other. If conscience condemns either, it places the man before a phantom tribunal, not before the living God. Thomas Charles Edwards 1837-1900

Scripture prefers negative descriptions of moral virtue, partly because Christianity necessarily assumes an antagonistic attitude towards the world's vices, partly because, as goodness is one and evil is many, the negative action of virtue consists in avoidance of many aspects of evil, while its positive action is comprehended in a few simple forms. Thomas Charles Edwards 1837-1900