The Kayelton Group

“Christians want nothing but absolute resignation to render them perfectly happy in every possible circumstance, and absolute resignation can only flow from an absolute belief of, and an absolute acquiescence in, God’s absolute providence, founded on absolute predestination!”  (Jerome Zanchius  1516-1590)

“Hungering in the soul, none can satisfy but God.”  (William H. Van Doren  1810-1882)

“In the degree in which we are enabled by the Spirit to apprehend the truth that nothing but love sends the troubles that come on God’s children, will our feeling under them be one of ‘nothing but joy?’”(Robert Johnstone  1871)

“Who has not felt the blessing of this divine power in Him who is our salvation, to retain unchanged his place before God for us, notwithstanding all our failures on the road.”  (Henry W. Soltau  1851)

“There is no basis for fear in the heart of the trusting child of God.”  (Lehman Strauss  1911-1997)

“It is not forbidden that in our hours of dire distress to ask for speed on God’s part in his coming to rescue us.”  (Charles H. Spurgeon  1834-1892)

“Never are we free long from danger, if we have forgotten that ‘in us, that is in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing.’  When this is forgotten, humility is gone; and when humility is gone, then ‘he that exalts himself must be humbled.”  (Hugh Martin  1869)

“The Lord can turn the heart perfectly to hate sin that was most of all beloved; and the strength of sin is gone when once ‘tis hated; and as the hatred grows stronger and stronger, sin becomes weaker and weaker daily.’”  (Nathaniel Vincent  1695)

“God pours out His grace plentifully on humble hearts.  His sweet dews and showers slide off the mountains to fall on the low valleys of humble hearts and make them pleasant and fertile.”  (Robert Leighton  1611-1684)

“I am a sinful man. It is this that brings the soul to true repentance—the conviction that the whole nature is pervaded by sin; that there is no good and sound part remaining which I can improve into acceptable excellence before the Lord.”  (Hugh Martin  1869)