The Kayelton Group

“Anxiety about secular circumstances, about the success of our worldly plans, about our temporal tomorrow, about provisions for ourselves in old age, for our children when we are gone, evermore betrays a lack of confidence in the Fatherly providence of that God who clothes the lilies of the field, and feeds the fowls of the air.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“When the fountain of the heart is purified, the streams from the lips will be pure also.”  (F.G. Marchant)

“The Redeemer is glorified, in that he proves sufficient to redeem those who are exceeding sinful, in that his blood proves sufficient to wash away the greatest guilt, in that he is able to save men to the uttermost, and in that he redeems even from the greatest misery.”  (Jonathan Edwards; 1703-1758)

“How cold and poor are our warmest thoughts towards God!  How unspeakably loving and gloriously rich are his thoughts towards us!”  (R. A. Fausset; 1821-1910)

“It is God’s love, from the face of Jesus shinning into my dark heart, that makes my heart open to him, and delight to be his dwelling-place.” (William Arnot; 1808-1875)

“The heart ought to be fixed and established by a due consideration of God’s greatness when we speak of him.”  (Lancelot Andrews)

“The first attempt to render spiritual obedience will quickly convince us of our utter helplessness.  We might as soon create a world as create in our hearts one pulse of spiritual life.  And yet our inability does not cancel our obligation.”  (Charles Bridges; 1794-1869)

“Never doubt, though thy iniquities be ever so great, there is a sea of mercy in God.”  (Richard Stock)

“Man always has easier ways, faster ways, and in his own assessment, better ways of doing what is considered correct.  Man, however, from the time of Adam has been found to be exceedingly faulty in all his ways.  The opposite is the way of our Heavenly Father.”  (Author no named)

“As election is the effect of God’s sovereignty, our pardon the fruit of his mercy our knowledge a stream from his wisdom, our strength an impression of his power; so our purity is a beam from his holiness.”  (Stephen Charnock; 1628-1680)