The Kayelton Group

Faithful waiting that looks only to God is like the willow tree, “often shaken and whipped in the wind, but firm at the root.”   (Unknown)

“The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.  His government is exercised over inanimate matter, over the brute beasts, over the children of men, over angels good and evil, and over Satan himself.  No revolving world, no shining of star, no storm, no creature moves, no actions of men, no errands of angels, no deeds of  the Devil—nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“Let us then remember our way and where we are, and keep our garments girt up, for we walk amidst thorns and briers which, if we let them down, will entangled and stop us, and possibly tear our garments.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

You will find also that objections urged against God’s sovereignty and man’s helplessness are just different manifestations of human pride – the pride into which Satan tempted Adam; “Ye shall be as gods,” and into which all his offspring have fallen along with him.  Man will not consent to be nothing, that God alone may be all.  And it is curious to observe that the objections urged against these truths are not passages of Scriptures, but human reasonings – man’s inferences and opinions.”  (Horatius Bonar; 1808-1889)

The sojourning of the Son of God on earth is the chief event which adorns the records of time and enlivens the history of the world.”  (John Fawcett  1740-1817)

“How little tenderness of conscience we show, how little burning desire to be kept from the accursed thing!  And when we turn to our opponents and see sin in them, instead of being grieved, we fall on them savagely to upbraid them, and we hold them up to open scorn.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

To desire ease is to embrace a deadly enemy.  Who that knows his own heart will not feel it a matter, not of congratulation, but of deep and anxious prayer – ‘In all time of our wealth-Good Lord, deliver us?’  (Charles Bridges, 1794-1869)

“Many corrupt and erroneous doctrines do eminently exalt the creature in its merit, free-will, liberty to dispose of its actions and to the manifest, depriving of God the glory of grace, dominion, and sovereignty to the abasing of Christ, his sufferings and the denial of providence.”  George Hutcheson (1615–1674)

“If God cleanses us in some measure, and puts into us some good liquor, some grace of His Spirit, yet we can make use of nothing when we have it if God but withdraws Himself.  If God leaves us one moment after He has bestowed upon us the greatest gifts, and whatever abilities we can desire, if God should say, ‘I will give them, now go and trade,’ we cannot progress one foot further if God leaves us.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“Superstition is not worshipping a false God, but worshipping the true God falsely, in a way not commanded by God.  It teaches and practices for doctrines the devices and commandments of men; that is to say, it worships, not according to the will of God, but to the will of man.”  Ralph Venning (1622-1674)