The Kayelton Group

“Though the valleys be so deep that we cannot see the bottom, and the mountains so high that we cannot see the tops of them, yet God knows how to raise the one and level the other.”  (Timothy Cruso; 1657-1697)

How overwhelmingly necessary it becomes to cast ourselves completely upon the mercy of God and to endeavor to live from day to day in the power and the strength of His indwelling Spirit for victory over the flesh and the sin which so easily besets us!”  (Philip R. Newell  1962)

“See the wondrous advantage of trouble–that it makes us call upon God; and again see the wondrous readiness of mercy that when we call he hears us!”  (J.W. Burgon; 1813-1888)

“Our prayers can give us no satisfaction if they are infected with a worldly spirit.”  (Joseph B. Mayor  1828-1916)

“A man is not saved because he believes in Christ; he believes in Christ because he is saved.  Even the beginning of faith, the disposition to seek salvation, is itself a work of grace and the gift of God.”  (Loraine Boettner; 1901-1990)

“The heart of the Spirit is infinitely more tender towards us, than that of the most affectionate parent can be towards an only child.” (John Owen; 1616-1683)

“When sensible of utter unworthiness and feebleness, we cast ourselves wholly on Him—and this very willingness to lean on Him is ‘not of ourselves, but the gift of God.”  (Robert Johnstone  1871)

“The filling with the Spirit requires that we give up our all, that we undergo an inward death, that we rid our hearts of that centuries old accumulation of Adamic trash and open all rooms to the heavenly Guest.”  (A. W. Tozer  1897-1963)

“A humble soul is emptied of all swelling thoughts of himself…A humble man has lower thoughts of himself than others can have of him.”  (Thomas Watson  1620-1686)

“Sincerity of heart gives a man boldness even in the presence of God, notwithstanding many failings.  The Lord doth ‘charge his angels with folly,’ how much more man that ‘dwells in a house of clay?’”  (William Strong)