The Kayelton Group

“Man’s word is vain and powerless, even though it proclaims the gospel.  It may be ever so persuasive and forceful, but it can never bring one soul out of darkness into the light; it is incapable to add even one member to the body of Christ.”  (Herman Hoeksema; 1886-1965)

“He who elevates himself is constantly engaged in wrecking his own life. But he who is sincerely humble, finds richness of life and happiness.”  Norval Geldenhuys  (1918-1964)

“We walk through a world where there is much mire of sinful polutions, and therefore it cannot but defile them; and the crowd we are among will be ready to tread on them, yea, our own feet may be entangled in them, and so make us stumble and possibly fall.  Our only safest way is to gird up our affections wholly.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

“Birth altogether excludes the idea of any effort or work on the part of the one who is born.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“I was born for nothing but repentance.”  Tertullian; 160–240

“How unsatisfactory to God must seem the bearing even of the best of us in reference to sin!  Do we really think of it as the object of God’s abhorrence?”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“Let truth be never so clearly held forth, yet (without the power of grace) enemies will not be gained thereby, but they will still jangle and set their wit and parts on work to find out new cavils.”  George Hutcheson (1615–1674)

“Is not the reason of our finding so little to praise, to be sought in our having no eyes for his daily miracles?”  (Augustus F. Tholuck; 1856)

“I am anxious, indeed, to be pleasing to God and to be filled with His Spirit; but I am not at all justified, or accounted righteous, by these things.  God, in justifying me, acted wholly and only on Christ’s blood-shedding on my behalf.”  (William R. Newell; 1865-1956)

“As ploughing prepares the earth for a crop, so afflictions prepare and make us meet for glory.”  (Thomas Watson  1620-1686)