The Kayelton Group

“A faithful man can endure God’s absence but a short time, while rebels take very little notice until they are crushed with destruction.”  (Anonymous  1946)

“Nothing is more importunate and necessary than sleep; but the hungering and thirsting for righteousness felt when the manifestations of Jesus are withheld, are stronger than the claims of even sleep, and cause us to seek him on our bed during hours belonging to repose.”  (George Burrowes, 1853)

“Creation leaves man dust.—Sin makes him the vilest of dust.  But still he walks vaingloriously until grace opens his eyes, and lays him low in his proper humility.”  (Henry Law  1797-1884)

“How great a thing is the work of human salvation, in which all the persons of the Godhead are here represented as concurring—the Father, loving us from eternity; the Son, descending in the fullness of the time to die for us; and the Holy Spirit, flying forth to breathe on our dead nature, that it may live!”  (John Lillie 1869)

“As the rising sun scatters the darkness of night, so when God returns to his people, in smiling mercy, he scatters the dark forebodings of unbelief, and liberates their souls from the bondage of sin.”  (William S. Plumer  1867)

“It is by the high way of pride that sinners depart from God; and it is by the low way of humiliation that they return to Him.”  (John Colquhoun  1748-1827)

“It is but little that we can know of his works, but that little should teach us to be humble and to admire the divine power and goodness.  How great must that Being be who produced these immense globes out of nothing, who regulates their courses and whose mighty hand directs and supports them all.”  (Christopher Christian Sturm; 1740-1786)

“Men will never find a remedy for their miseries until, forgetting their own merits, by trusting to which they only deceive themselves, they have learned to betake themselves to the free mercy of God.”  John Calvin; 1509-1564)

“Sometimes the most God-honoring answer to Biblical questions is simply ‘I don’t understand, teach me these things.”   (No name given)

“We best recognize our sinfulness when we best recognize the glory of God.”  (William H. Van Doren 1810-1882)