The Kayelton Group

“When the humble and penitent soul is made conscious of the divine withdrawment, nothing will satisfy it but a sense of God’s returning smile.”  (William S. Plumer; 1802-1880)

“Now soul, thou art molested with many lusts that infest thee, and obstruct thy commerce with heaven; yea, thou hast complained to thy God, what loss thou hast suffered by them; is it now presumption to expect relief from him, that he will rescue thee from them; that thou mayest serve him without fear, who is thy liege Lord?  You have the saints for your precedents; who, when they have been in combat with their corruptions, yea, been foiled by them, have even then exercised their faith on God, and expected the ruin of those enemies, which, for the present, have overrun them.”  William Gurnall 1617-1679

“This was love indeed, that God should take a filthy, wretched thing, and spread his skirts over it, and cover its nakedness, and swear unto it, and enter into a covenant with it, and make it his;  that is, that he should espouse this loathsome thing to himself, that he would be a husband to it;  this love unfathomable, love inconceivable, self-principle love;  this is the love of God to man, for God is love.”  (James Janeway, 1636-1674)

“Every man is naturally blind to his own state and sins.”  (William R. Newell; 1865-1956)

“The fruit of daily, serious examination of the conscience concerning sin committed, is to make a man humble, quiet, and submissive to the Lord.”  David Dickson  (1583-1662)

“He understands and consults the best interests of His people in every respect.  He took flesh, and knows the infirmities of human nature by personal experience, that He may sympathize with their condition, and compassionately conduct their concerns.  He was lawfully called and appointed to this function.”  (George Smeaton; 1814-1889)

“It is by the high way of pride that sinners depart from God; and it is by the low way of humiliation that they return to Him.”  (John Colquhoun; 1748-1827)

“For ‘nothing defiles a man but what comes from within’ (Matt. 15); that is, that which the heart has conceived within it—as thoughts of uncleanness—in which, although Satan himself be the father of them, the heart is the mother and womb.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“The churches of Jesus Christ can expect Spiritual abundance only when the Holy Spirit is the director of their affairs.”  (Author not mentioned)

“At best, the children of the Most High are frail; and if God does not make us stand, we shall surely fall.”  (Anonymous)