“We have met young men who judge everything before learning to admire anything; who see the fault before the good, overanalyse, but never rejoice.”

Original: Yr ydym wedi cwrdd â rhai dynion ieuainc yn barnu popeth cyn dysgu edmygu dim; gweld y bai cyn gweld y da, yn gorfanylu, ond byth yn gorfoleddu. — Warning against learning to criticise before learning to admire · Sermon, Sul y Blodau, 31 March 1903 (Welsh)

• Criticism
• Joy
• Wisdom

“There is a sacred striving in a covenant to preserve order in the world, something very old and yet always new.”

Original: Y mae rhyw ymdrech gysegredig mewn cyfamod i gadw trefn yn y byd, yn beth hen iawn, ac yn beth newydd o hyd. — Seeing moral covenant as both ancient and continually renewed · Sermon, Cyfamod Duw a Dyn (Welsh)

• Change
• Faith
• Tradition

“The real young men are those who have worked and sweated, and who know the people, their spirit, their ways and their needs.”

Original: Bechgyn iawn yw'r bechgyn yma sydd wedi bod yn gweithio, ac wedi bod yn chwysu, ac yn gwybod am y bobl, ac ysbryd y bobl, am ffyrdd y bobl, ac angen y bobl. — Valuing practical experience and close knowledge of ordinary people · Address, Y Paratoad Goreu ar Gyfer y Weinidogaeth, 1895 (Welsh)

• Community
• Education