365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

The Lord takes a great deal of delight to train and bring up his child to be more in love with him. God will so train and bring him up, that if he throw him into the worst condition that can be for body or soul, and shall say, 'What thinkest thou of me now? Hast thou any hard thoughts of me?' saith God. 'No,' saith the soul, 'all is love.' Walter Cradoock 1606-1659

I would do a hundred things that Christ hath not commanded, and leave undone a hundred things that Christ hath not forbidden, rather than be tied to one thing by men that Christ hath not commanded. Walter Cradock c 1606-1659

Therefore consider what treasure there is in the Gospel; there are unsearchable treasures in the Gospel, but of all this is the jewel of all, the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Walter Cradock c 1606-1659

It is better to have division than an evil uniformity. Walter Cradock c 1606-1659

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord. Walter Cradock c 1606-1659

The greatest difference (that I know) in all the Book of God, between Saints and Sinners is, that the one hath the Spirit, and the other hath not. The spirit is all in all in religion. Walter Cradock,

A woman that hath butter in a dish, she melts some of the butter, but if she take it too soon from the fire there will be a core, a knob in the dish left, and being taken from the fire it grows bigger till all be hard. So a weak saint: by studying the promises of God and the love of God, it dissolves much of the knobbiness, yet there are some hard thoughts and jealousies and suspicions; but God comes at last, and melts all the butter together, all the knobbiness that is in the heart, every thought and imagination of terror and guilt and fear, that there is a clear and pure principle of love to God - and then the soul is fond of him. Walter Cradock 1606-1659

I fear our fast days are the most smoky days in God's nostrils of all the days of the year. Walter Cradock c 1606-1659

When I have communion with a saint, I must not look so much whether he be of such an opinion, or whether he have taken the covenant, or to have been baptized once or twice or ten times, but see if he have fellowship with the Father, and with Jesus Christ. Walter Cradock 1606-1659

We are not sent to get galley-slaves for the oars, or a bear to the stake: but He sends us to woo you as spouses, to marry you to Christ. Walter Cradock 1606-1659