The Kayelton Group

“We want men who have neither the vanity to suppose that they have fully sounded the depths of theological truth, nor the arrogance to pronounce those heretics who neither adopt their notions nor use their nomenclature; but who, on the contrary, have grace to believe in their own fallibility, and, like John, in a teaching higher than their own.”  David Thomas  (1813-1894)

“That which really in the last resort hinders a man’s salvation and secures his doom is not his sin, but his refusal to know and own that he is a sinner.”  (William Arnot  1808-1875)

“A man who is little in his own eyes will account every affliction as little, and every mercy as great.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“God makes use, not only of the imprudence, but of the worst vices of men, to the accomplishment of His own pleasure.”  George Lawson  (1749-1820)

“Let God arrange the order in which His gifts are distributed.  Never hurry Providence, as Sarah did when she gave Hagar to Abraham.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“He that hath his lusts unmortified, and a heart unweaned from the world, though he know all the history of the death and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and can discourse well of them, yet indeed he knows them not.” Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

“This is it which God expecteth of us, and whereunto he desireth to bring us, that seeing our own emptiness and insufficiency, and the impotency and disability of others to help us, we should in all humility fly to his mercy.”  (William Gouge 1575-1653)

“A rich man, who is able to despise in himself whatever there is in him by which pride can be puffed up, is God’s poor man…Such men “confess their poverty with as great humility of spirit, and pray for grace with as great earnestness, as beggars ask alms of the rich.”  Augustine (354–430)

“Suppose all the vanities and impertinences which have passed through your mind during a devotional exercise were written down and interlined with your petitions, could you have the face to present them to God?”  (John Flavel  1622-1691)

“All afflictions are sharp, and in their own nature killing and deadly.  That any have good from them, is from the grace of God, not from their nature.”  (Joseph Caryl)