The Kayelton Group

“God is the most glorious object that our minds could ever fasten upon, the most alluring.  Thoughts of Him should therefore swallow up all other thoughts, as they are not worthy to be seen the same day with Him.  But I appeal to your experience, are not your thoughts of Him the most unsteady.  Do you not have as much trouble holding your thoughts on Him as you would holding a telescope on a star with a palsy-shaking hand?”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“The very God hath afflicted Himself to satisfy His justice, pouring out His wrath and anger on His Son for the elect’s sins.”  (Unknown)

“We are delivered” not by our own skill or cunning, but by the grace and power of God only so that every device is made vain and freedom is preserved.”  (Martin Geier; 1890)

“Those who come to him he needs them not to receive from them but to give unto them; he needs not their fullness but their emptiness, that his fullness may overflow to the supply thereof.”  George Hutcheson  (1615-1674)

“God takes great pains to inform his people in all ages that all their hope is in his sovereign favor and rich grace, and that it is not the merit or the misery of mortals that moves him to show them pity or extend deliverance.”  (William S. Plumer  1802-1880)

“No created mind was competent even in idea to fathom the guilt of sin or measure its consequences—not to mention our utter inability to expiate the one or reverse the other.”  (George Smeaton; 1814-1889)

Love flowing from the heart of Jesus into the heart of a poor believing sinner expelling selfishness, melting coldness, conquering sinfulness, and drawing that heart up in a simple and unreserved surrender is of all principles of action the most powerful.”  Octavius Winslow  (1808-1878)

“Evangelical humiliation is the immediate consequence of a true sense of sin, and of a spiritual apprehension of pardoning mercy.  It consists in lowliness, or self-abasement of mind before God, and esteeming others better than ourselves; in having low thoughts of ourselves, and a deep sense of our extreme meanness, hatefulness, weakness, and unworthiness in the sight of God.”   (John Colouhoun; 148-1827)

“The natural man will always despise the excellence to which he cannot attain.”  (Author unknown)

“The more I understand of the character of God, as revealed in Scripture, the more shall I see that he must be sovereign, and the more shall I rejoice from my inmost heart that He is so.   It was God’s sovereign will that fixed the time of my birth.  It is the same will that has fixed the day of my death.  And was not the day of my conversion fixed as certainly by that same will?”  Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)