The Kayelton Group

“Oh! tis a sad thing to have one’s portion of good only in this life.”  (Ralph Venning;  1620-1673)

“God will not only hear our cry, but will hear us before we cry and will help us.”  (Thomas Playfere)

“For prayer is not a work of the head, hand or eyes only, but chiefly a work of the heart; therefore called in Scripture, the “pouring out of the soul” (1 Sam. 1:15); and the “pouring out of the heart” (Psalm 62:8).  (Thomas Gouge;  1605-1681)

“The joys of heaven never fade, never wither, never die, nor never are lessened or interrupted.  The joy of the saints in heaven is a constant joy, an everlasting joy, in the root, in the cause and in the matter and objects of it.  There joy lasts forever whose objects remain forever.”  (Thomas Brooks;  1677-1732)

“Whatever be the ground of one’s distress, it should drive him to, not from God.”  (John Flavel;  1628-1691)

“Settle it in your heart that there is need of all the humbling circumstances you are put in.  This is truth, God brings no needless trials on us, afflicts none but as their need requires.”  (Thomas Boston;  1677-1732)

“There will be nothing to breed sorrow in heaven; there shall be joy, and nothing but joy, heaven is set out by that phrase, “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”  Here joy enters into us, there we enter into joy; the joys we have here are from heaven; the joys that we shall have with Christ are without measure and without mixture.”  (Thomas Watson;  1620-1686)

“Though He is independent, absolute, eternal, mighty, righteous and holy, nevertheless He has condescended to make a covenant with men.”  (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones;  1899-1981)

“There are no sins with God’s people that are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.  They are ready either to faint through unbelief, or to fret through impatience.”  (Thomas Watson;  1620-1686)

“Oh!  what a ‘fullness of joy’ will it be to hear more than twelve legions of angels, accompanied with a number of happy saints which no man is able to number, all at once sing together, ‘Hallelujah, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.’”  (John Boys)