The Kayelton Group

“If God laid all degrees of our blessedness up in Himself before the world, much more before we were in the world, who does not see that all our salvation comes freely to us, both in promise and accomplishment, not according to our works but according to the good pleasure of His will.”  (Thomas Taylor; 1758-1835)

“The gulf which divides the Creator from the creature is wide, and no created mind has analyzed God’s being or measured the ways of His counsel.”  (Klass Schilder  (1890-1952)

“A person who makes decisions out of love and humility will do what is best for others, not what is best for himself.”  (Robert G. Gromacki)

“Justification is a judicial, but gracious act of God, by which a sinner is absolved from the guilt of sin, is freed from condemnation, and has a right to eternal life — adjudged, merely for the sake of our Lord’s obedience, which is imputed to him and received by faith.”  (Abraham Booth  1734-1806)

“Contentment involves learning to love the will of God regardless of the circumstances into which it may bring a person.”  (Charles Caldwell Ryrie, 1925)

“Conversion is a peculiar and sovereign gift of God.  The sinner has no power to turn himself unto God, but is turned or renewed by divine grace before he can do anything spiritually good.”  (Loraine Boettner, 1901-1990)

“It is most meet that we should day by day cry to God for deliverance and help; our frailty and our many dangers render this a perpetual necessity.”  (Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892)

“In all men by nature there is struggle — the perverse will strive with the conscience, the ‘fleshly lusts’ quelling spiritual aspirations and yearnings, and thus in the fullest sense ‘warring against the soul.”  (James Johnstone, 1871)

“We fail, not because there is not ample strength in Jesus Christ for us, but because in our folly and sin we are trusting in ourselves to obey the law.”  (Edward Henry Bickersteth  1825-1906)

“Turn me not only from sin and ignorance, but from every false confidence and every deceitful refuge.”  (James Hervey; 1714-1758)