The Kayelton Group

“God seems to go quite across and work in a contrary way. When He intends the greatest mercies to His people, He first usually brings them into very low conditions.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs; 1599-1646)

“Nothing in this world can change the deceitful and desperately wicked heart of man and cause it to do service for God.”  (Joseph Caryl  1602-1673)

“When God speaks peace, it is a peace beyond all expression, the peace of God that passes all understanding; it cannot be uttered.”  (William Bridge; 1600-1671)

“The wages that sin bargains with the sinner are life, pleasure and profit; but the wages it pays him with are death, torment, and destruction.  He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin, must compare its promises and its payments together.”  (Robert South  1633-1716)

“One of the earmarks of true conversion is adherence to God as all in all regardless of the greatness of the adversity.”  (Author not known; 1946)

Faith accepts the present remission of sins; hope is the expectation of future deliverance.”  (Phillip Melanchthon, 1497-1560)

“Either our characters must become holy, or the whole style and nature of God’s kingdom must be changed.  We must be raised to a state of meetness for heaven, or heaven must be lowered and accommodated to our carnal tastes.  The latter is impossible; God’s kingdom must be holy, and if we would enter into the kingdom, we must be holy too.”  (James Buchanan  1804-1870)

“Love causes believers to take all things that God sends them favorably and in good part.”  (John Albert Bengel  1687-1752)

“Thou has his free promise who never failed, who has promised more than possibly what thou could ask or think, who has done more for thee than ever he promised, who is good and bountiful to the wicked and ungodly. Thou does his work who is able and assuredly will bear thee out.”  (John Ball 1585-1640)

“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed. The divine excellence of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage, as when under the greatest trials.”  (Jonathan Edwards; 1703-1758)