The Kayelton Group

“And His beneficence to us, ill-deserving creatures, may well stop our mouth from complaining of His making a crook in our lot, who would have done us no wrong had He made the whole of it crooked.”  (Thomas Boston 1677-1732)

“When you dig away the earth from the root of a tree, it is to loosen the tree from the earth; so God digs away our earthly comforts to loosen our hearts from the earth.”  Thomas Watson 1620-1686)

“If you can get your heart to be more burdened with your sin, you will be less burdened with your afflictions.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“You cannot distrust God, and not accuse him of a want either of power or of goodness; you cannot repine—no, not even in thought—without virtually telling him that his plans are not the best, nor his dispensations the wisest, which might have been appointed in respect of yourselves.  So that your fear, or your despondency, or your anxiety in circumstances of perplexity, or of peril, is nothing less than a call upon God to depart from his fixed course,–a suspicion, or rather an assertion that he might proceed in a manner more worthy of himself, and therefore a challenge to him to alter his dealings, if he would prove that he possesses the attributes which he claims.” (Henry Melvill; 1779-1873)

“As believers united to Him, we become, and are regarded by the Father as being, what He is.”  George Milligan; 1860-1934

“Though the revelation of God in his works is sufficient to render men inexcusable, it does not follow that it is sufficient to lead men, blinded by sin, to a saving knowledge of  himself.  As Paul says of the law, that it was weak through the flesh, that is, insufficient on account of our corruption, so it may be said of the light of nature, that, although sufficient in itself as a revelation, it is not sufficient, considering the indisposition and inattention of men to divine things.”  Charles Hodge  (1797-1878)

“If the promises be true, as faith avers, then hope hath good reason firmly to expect.  This desire and hope are the very wheels of the soul which carry it on, and faith is the common axis on which they rest.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

“A covenant is simply a dispensation of sovereign grace imposed upon a people by God Himself.”  (Edward J. Young  1907-1968)

 “With the growth in goodness grows the sense of sin.  One law fulfilled shows a thousand neglected.  Moral advancement, as a natural consequence, destroys the sense of merit, and produces that of sin.”  (Moztley)

“Go to God by acts of faith and trust, and never doubt that he will secure you. ‘Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee,’ says Isaiah.”  John Flavel (1627-1691)