The Kayelton Group

“No sooner is confession made than forgiveness is granted.”  James G. Murphy  (1849-1921)

“Affliction is come to the height and its complete measure when the sinner is made sensible of his own weakness, and sees there is no help for him save in God alone.”  David Dickson  (1583-1662)

“But as soon as ever a believer has Christ’s righteousness imputed to him, he has virtually finished the righteousness of the law.  It is evident the saints shall persevere because they are already justified.”  Jonathan Edwards  (1703-1758)

“Repentance must spring from a deep consideration and a true sense of its infinite malignity and demerit.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“How foolish and vain for men to leave God out of their calculations!  On man’s side every detail may be carefully attended to, everything may be done that is necessary to secure the desired result, and yet without God it will utterly fail.”  (Philip Mauro; 1859-1952)

“God shows mercy, not because we deserve mercy, but because He delights in mercy.”  Thomas Watson (1620-1686)

“Let a sense of your helplessness for the work of the Lord lead you to the throne of grace to pray, watch, and wait for the strengthening and refreshing influences of the Spirit of grace.”  Charles Bridges  (1794-1869)

“The weakest creature can quell the mightiest man, if God bid GO.”  Richard Clerke  (1634)

“It was for the trial of their faith that these things happened to the Israelites, as do the trials of all Christians in all ages:  and it is “after we have suffered awhile” that we may expect to be established, strengthened and settled.”  Brownlow North  (1741-1820)

“All wonderful! Wonderful that the Spirit should strive with man; wonderful that God should bear with his backslidings; wonderful that God should love him not withstanding his pollutions; wonderful that God should persist in saving him in spite, as it were, of himself.”  (Henry Melvill 1709-1871)