The Kayelton Group

“Peace and prosperity incline the human heart to become careless.”  (J. Marcellus Kik  1961)

“The goodness of the Lord.”  “He might, if he had pleased, have made everything we tasted bitter, everything we saw loathsome, everything we touched a sting, every smell a stench, every sound a discord.”  (William Paley  1743-1805)

“The great Author of nature knows all our wants.  Let us cast our every care on him, for he cares for us; and may we come boldly to the throne of grace in faith and sincerity that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help us in every time of need.”  (Christopher Christian Sturm  1740-1786)

“Confession is to the soul as the whetstone is to the knife, it sharpen and puts an edge on it; so does confession of sin.  Confessing your evils to God sharpens and put an edge on your supplications.“  (Christopher Love  1618-1651)

“Grieve not as without hope,” that upon thy sincere and suitable repentance divine goodness will forgive thee thy sins.”  (Nathanael Hardy  1618-1670)

“There is no guile in the spirit of him who sees the truth of himself in the light of the truth of God.  For the truth of God shows him at once that in Christ he is perfectly righteous before God, and in himself he is the chief of sinners.”  (J. W. Reeve  1860)

“The life of a Christian is filled up with interchanges of sickness and health, weakness and strength, want and wealth, disgrace and honor, crosses and comforts, miseries and mercies, joys and sorrows, mirth and mourning; all honey would harm us, all wormwood would undo us; a composition of both is the best way in the world to keep our souls in a healthy constitution.”  (Thomas Brooks  1608-1680)

“We can never understand the course of this world’s events unless we keep in mind that God is the absolute and unchallengeable Sovereign of all that exists, and that no event, good or bad, great or small, can take place without either His decretive or permissive will.  That he does allow much evil that He could prevent if He chose, is an undeniable fact.  But He limits it, and overrules if for His own glory and the greater good of His people.”  (Loraine Boettner  1901-1990)

“God, as sovereign, chose us; as merciful, pardons us; as wise, guides us; as powerful, protects us; as true, makes good his promises to us.”  (Stephen Charnock  1628-1680)

“The resurrection of Jesus Christ was the closing and culminating act of the redemption that he wrought.  If the work had not thereby been completed, it would have been of no avail.”  (William Arnot  1808-1875)