The Kayelton Group

“As the fire under the pot makes the scum rise up, appear on top, and run over; so the crook in the lot raises up from the bottom, and brings out such corruption as otherwise one could hardly imagine to be within.”  (Thomas Boston; 1677-1732)

“Afflictions to the godly are medicinal…Afflictions are as needful as ordinances (1 Peter 1:6).  No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honor, unless we are melted and refined in the furnace of affliction.”  (Thomas Watson; 1620-1686)

“The world is infinitely deceived in thinking that contentment lies in having more than we already have.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“Surely, there is far more danger of making too much of man and too little of God, than there is of making too much of God and too little of man.” Arthur W. Pink   (1886-1952)

“Living faith in a living and loving Savior can do all things.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“They who profess themselves worshippers of the true God ought to perform it with humble and affectionate reverence, and with subjection and submission to him, considering his majesty and their own vileness.”  George Hutcheson (1615–1674)

“As the furnace shows faith to be what it is, so also it betters it, and makes it more precious and purer than it was.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

“Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning.’ let it engage my thoughts and affections.”  W. Abbot  (1870)

“David’s plea, ‘For I am thy servant,’ is no boast of his service, but a magnifying of God’s electing grace.”  Andrew Robert Fausset  (1821-1910)

“Oftentimes the soul seems lost for awhile in thoughts which overwhelm it; it loses its foothold; it tumbles about helplessly amid the deep waters of affliction. It seems as if all were over.  Do not believe it.”  E. De Pressense  (1869)