The Kayelton Group

“Learn to set spiritual riches over against temporal poverty.  Balance all your present troubles with your spiritual privileges.”  (John Flavel, 1628-1691)

“Although times might change and the purposes of God might seem to be forgotten, yet God abides the same.  What He has promised will in His own time most certainly find fulfillment.”  (Edward J. Young; 1907-1968)

“The night of our adversity will be turned into the light of prosperity; and as surely as we can believe when it is night that it shall be day, so surely may we be persuaded when crosses are upon us that comfort  and deliverance shall come.”  (Nicholas Byfield; 1579-1622)

“As the fire under the pot makes the scum rise up, appear on top, and run over; so the crook in the lot raises up from the bottom, and brings out such corruption as otherwise one could hardly imagine to be within.”  (Thomas Boston; 1677-1732)

“Afflictions to the godly are medicinal…Afflictions are as needful as ordinances (1 Peter 1:6).  No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honor, unless we are melted and refined in the furnace of affliction.”  (Thomas Watson; 1620-1686)

“The world is infinitely deceived in thinking that contentment lies in having more than we already have.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“Surely, there is far more danger of making too much of man and too little of God, than there is of making too much of God and too little of man.” Arthur W. Pink   (1886-1952)

“Living faith in a living and loving Savior can do all things.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“They who profess themselves worshippers of the true God ought to perform it with humble and affectionate reverence, and with subjection and submission to him, considering his majesty and their own vileness.”  George Hutcheson (1615–1674)

“As the furnace shows faith to be what it is, so also it betters it, and makes it more precious and purer than it was.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)