The Kayelton Group

“This is the first ground of comfort—a meditation of the righteousness of God’s nature; he alters not with times, he changes not with persons, he is always and unto all, one and the same righteous and holy God.”  (William Cowper; 1731-1800)

“ALL who believe in Christ Jesus are so closely related to him as to be treated by God as if they were one with him.  When he looks at them, he sees nothing but Christ.”  (John Brown; 1784-1858)

“I am afflicted very much. We can recommend so persuasively the cheerful drinking of the cup of sorrow when in the hand of others, but what wry faces we make when it is put into our own.”  (Thomas Manton; 1620-1677)

“In God’s empire, there is no chance.  It is our ignorance of the cause which makes an event fortuitous.  Chance is only another name for man’s want of knowledge.”  (William H. Van Doren; 1810-1882)

“We have already seen that grace stands for the whole sum of the unmerited blessings which come to men through Jesus Christ.  It is the unconditional, undeserved, spontaneous, eternal, stooping and pardoning love of God.”  (William Graham Scroggie; 1877-1958)

“All true penitents consider the service of sin as the greatest bondage, the deepest misery, but the service of God in Christ as the truest freedom, the sweetest happiness.”  (John Colquhoun; 1748-1827)

“He who reigns over all has sent for us and bidden us come—bidden us ask.  He will not dishonor his own promise:  treat him as a father, and see whether he will not make you his dear child.”  (William Arnot;  1808-1875)

“If God be our God, then all that is in God is ours,”  (Thomas Watson; 1620-1686)

“The heart taught of God cannot contain itself, but breaks out in praise and singing.”  (John Stephen)

“And who amongst the best of us can tell what elements of depravity there may be slumbering in the heart, which, if rouse to action by temptation, would prompt the commission of terrible crimes?”  (David Thomas; 1813-1894)