The Kayelton Group

“It was for the trial of their faith that these things happened to the Israelites, as do the trials of all Christians in all ages; and it is ‘after we have suffered awhile’ that we may expect to be established, strengthened, settled.”  Brownlow North  (1741-1820)

“All wonderful!  Wonderful that the Spirit should strive with man; wonderful that God should bear with his backslidings; wonderful that God should love him not withstanding his pollutions; wonderful that God should persist in saving him in spite, as it were, of himself.”  (Henry Melvill’ 1709-1871)

“God is called our Father, not merely as the author of our existence and the source of every blessing, but especially as reconciled towards us through Jesus Christ.”  Charles Hodge   (1797-1878)

“For when we repose all faith in Him to whom we cling and understand that all things flow from Him alone and that we are in His care, then sweet love toward Him has to follow.”  Martin Luther (1483-1546)

“Joy is experienced when we realize that our sin has been judged and put away in Christ.  It has been so in the purpose and intention of God.”  Frederick Brotherton Meyer  (1847-1929)

“There may indeed be a time when God will not be found, but no time wherein he must not be trusted.”  Thomas Lye  (1621-1684)

“The watchful care which God exerts over his people in times of danger is the chief lesson which we are taught. It lays open to us the wonderful manner in which he who “declares the end from the beginning” provides beforehand for the execution of his purposes, for defeating the schemes of his adversaries, and rescuing those who put their trust in him.”  (Thomas McCrie; 1772-1835)

“Nothing can be more agreeable to the dictates of right reason, than to spend and be spent in the service of that God, whose glory is transcendent, whose power is infinite, whose justice is firm and whose tender mercies are over all His works.”  Robert Haldane  (1772–1854)

“But it is far easier to stir up discontent and fear than to stimulate faith.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“The more we can think upon our Lord and the less upon ourselves, the better.  Looking to him, as he is seated upon the right hand of the throne of God, will keep our heads and especially our hearts steady when going through the deep waters of affliction.”  David Smith  (1792-1867)