The Kayelton Group

“The whole life of the true penitent is a continual warfare.  During this warfare he must fight many battles.  Sometimes he gains the victory and sometimes he loses.  If he loses he must renew the fight: if he gains, he must pursue the victory and prepare for a new encounter.”   (John Colquhoun; 1748-1827)

“PATIENCE is a constant, thankful, and joyful enduring with perseverance to the end of man’s life. All the trials that are grievous, however great, however long, however hopeless the coming out of them may appear; mortifying and compressing the inordinacy of opposite passions such as fear, grief, care, anxiety, which  will arise upon such afflictions; with submitting to God’s will, for God’s glory, and His good pleasure’s sake; still blessing and sanctifying God in all, waiting of God, and relieving one’s self by faith in what is to be had in God, and from God, in communion with Him, and from His love, in this life; in expectation also of that glory which is the reward after this life is ended.”  (Thomas Goodwin; 1600-1679)

“A gracious soul is insatiable; the more it has received, the more it desires to receive.”  (Robert Walker;  1716-1783)

“Love to God is the very fuel of acceptable obedience.  Withdraw the fuel, and the flame expires.”  (Jerome Zanchius; 1516-1590)

“Man by his sin has lost his power to obey the will of God in a right manner. Yet God has not lost his authority to command.”  (John Gill;   1697-1771)

“The cause as to why our oppressors prevail against us is because we trust too much in our own wits, and lean too much upon our own inventions; opposing subtlety to subtlety, one evil device to another, matching and maintaining policy by policy, and not committing our cause to God.”  (Abraham Wright, 1611-1690)

“Unless Christ approaches the sinner, the sinner will not come to Christ.”  (William H. Van Doren;  1810-1882)

“How blessed to let go of our cause and give it into the hands of God who knows everything much better than we do.”  (Frans Bakker; 1919-1965)

“So, do you speak against God’s ways, and His providences which have taken place concerning your condition and outward comforts?  Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?  Where is the man or woman whose heart is so bold and impudent that they dare to speak against the administration of God’s providence?”  (Jeremiah Burroughs;  1599-1646)

“The deceitfulness of the human heart is strikingly exhibited in the different judgments which men pass upon themselves and others; condemning in others what they excuse in themselves.”  (Charles Hodge;  1797-1878)