Oliver Cromwell: Quotes about God

Oliver Cromwell was English military and political leader. Explore interesting quotes on god.

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“God made them as stubble to our swords.”

Oliver Cromwell

Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)

“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately… Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

Oliver Cromwell

Address to the Rump Parliament (20 April 1653)

“Shall we seek for the root of our comforts within us; what God hath done, what he is to us in Christ, is the root of our comfort. In this is stability; in us is weakness. Acts of obedience are not perfect, and therefore yield not perfect peace. Faith, as an act, yields it not, but as it carries us into him, who is our perfect rest and peace; in whom we are accounted of, and received by, the Father, even as Christ himself. This is our high calling. Rest we here, and here only.”

Oliver Cromwell

Letter to Charles Fleetwood (1652)

“I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.”

Oliver Cromwell

As quoted from "Dying Sayings" of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches by Thomas Carlyle

“This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.”

Oliver Cromwell

After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town" (1649)

“Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.”

Oliver Cromwell

Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)

“Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities… are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)

“If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech to his army officers (23 March 1649)

“We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests… I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.”

Oliver Cromwell

Statement to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 or 6 September 1644)

“I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences…”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech dissolving the First Protectorate Parliament (22 January 1655)

“Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.”

Oliver Cromwell

On the trial of Charles I (December 1648)

“God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech to the Army Council (1654)

“I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation — to serve in parliaments, — and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people’s interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)

“Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.”

Oliver Cromwell

Answer to the Conference at the Committee at Whitehall, Second Protectorate Parliament (13 April 1657), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 504

“This is our comfort, God is in heaven, and He doth what pleaseth Him; His, and only His counsel shall stand, whatsoever the designs of men, and the fury of the people be.”

Oliver Cromwell

Letter to Sir Thomas Fairfax (21 December 1646)

“When I went there, I did not think to have done this. But perceiving the spirit of God so strong upon me, I would not consult flesh and blood.”

Oliver Cromwell

On his forcible dissolution of parliament (April 1653) quoted in Flagellum: or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Oliver Cromwell the Late Usurper (1663) by James Heath

“You are as like the forming of God as ever people were… you are at the edge of promises and prophecies.”

Oliver Cromwell

Speech to the "Barebones Parliament" (July 1653)

“Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.”

Oliver Cromwell

Attributed by William Blacker (not to be confused with Valentine Blacker), who popularized the quote with his poem "Oliver's Advice" http://books.google.com/books?id=JmEaAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Oliver%27s+Advice%22+Cromwell&q=%22Oliver%27s+Advice%22+Cromwell#v=snippet&q=%22Oliver's%20Advice%22%20Cromwell&f=false, published under the pseudonym Fitz Stewart in The Dublin University Magazine, December 1834, p. 700; where the attribution to Cromwell appears in a footnote describing a "well-authenticated anecdote" that explains the poem's title. The repeated line in Blacker's poem is "Put your trust in God, my boys, but keep your powder dry". <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: Trust in God and keep your powder dry. <br class="br">Variant: Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.

“I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are.”

Oliver Cromwell

Before the Battle of Naseby (14 June 1645)