The Kayelton Group

“Satan’s grand argument to keep a soul from prayer is—‘Go not with that cold and insensible frame; go not with that hard and sinful heart; stay until you are more fit to approach God.”  (Octavius Winslow; 1808-1878)

“God can make the greatest enemies of his people the means of advancing their interests.  Whom then ought the Christian to fear, but God?  (Alexander Carson; 1776-1844)

“He never oversleeps the hour of deliverance; He appears at the right moment.”  (William H. Van Doren  1810-1882)

“Certainly God’s bounty is too large for our thoughts.”  (Thomas Manton; 1620-1677)

“Be in the habit of going to him in the first place—before self-will, self-pleasing, self-wisdom, human friends, convenience, expediency.  Before any of these have been consulted go to God at once.  Consider no circumstances too clear to need his direction.”(Charles Bridges; 1794-1869)

“It is blood that opens our way into the presence of God.  It is the voice of atoning blood that prevails with Him who dwells within.”  (A. A. Bonar; 1810-1892)

“Preparation for heaven does not consist in rising to any imaginary standard of piety, in being as holy as we may consider some illustrious saints, in rising to certain frames of which we have heard and which we have desired; but in being filled as full of the Holy Spirit as our capacities can bear.”  (George Burrows; 1803-1881)

“How little we love, considering how much we are forgiven!”  (William H. Van Doren  1810-1882)

“Anxiety about secular circumstances, about the success of our worldly plans, about our temporal tomorrow, about provisions for ourselves in old age, for our children when we are gone, evermore betrays a lack of confidence in the Fatherly providence of that God who clothes the lilies of the field, and feeds the fowls of the air.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“When the fountain of the heart is purified, the streams from the lips will be pure also.”  (F. G. Marchant)