The Kayelton Group

“We cannot trust both to ourselves and in God, any more than we can serve two masters.  We should learn to distrust ourselves, that we may trust in God, the Father of lights, from whom every good and perfect gift comes.”  (George Lawson; 1807)

“The more exact and accurate a man is in his duty, the more he grows in grace; and the more he grows in grace, the more exact and accurate he grows in his duty.” (William Bridge; 1600-1671)

“Nothing in me could thou behold but a shocking compound of impurity and folly, of guilt and wretchedness.  Nothing in my conduct could thou foresee, but what was adapted to provoke thy abhorrence, rather than to obtain thy regard.”  (Abraham Booth;  1734-1806)

“Sin is of an encroaching nature; it creeps into the soul by degrees, step by step, until it has the soul at the very height of sin.”  (Thomas Brooks; 1608-1680)

“Strangely, man is so set on trusting in himself and depending on his own power that unless that power is reduced to a helpless minimum, he will refuse to put his confidence wholly in the good Lord.” (H. C. Leupold; 1891-1972)

“The bond of the covenant is able to bear the weight of the believer’s heaviest burden.”  (William S. Plumer; 1867)

”As God has appointed the elect unto glory, so has He, by the eternal and free purpose of His will, foreordained all the means thereunto.”  (Loraine Boettner; 1901-1990)

“Let us embrace the promise, and rejoice that it is substance and not shadow.  Let us even now rejoice in it as being the reality of that for which we are hoping.”  (Charles H. Spurgeon; 1834-1892)

“All the holy breathings and desires of the soul, all the longings for God and for conformity to His will and image and all that is lovely and like Jesus in the saint are the result of this gracious act of the eternal Spirit.”  (Octavius Winslow; 1808-1878)

“When the Lord lifts upon us the light of his countenance and turns his face towards us listening to our cry, then are eyes again enlightened, and we have no difficulty in obtaining counsel.”  (Martin Luther; 1483-1546)