The Kayelton Group

“We are often brought to a stand, hedged up and hemmed in by providence of God so that there seems no way out.”  George Barrell Cheever  (1807)

“Is it not the enemy of all mankind who hath singled me out as it were to a duel?  And can  I resist him myself alone, whom the whole army of mankind cannot.”  Sir Richard Baker (1568 -1645)

“It is in love that his face is turned away; yet to a real child of God, this hiding of his Father’s face is terrible, and he will never be at ease until once more he hath his Father’s smile.”  Charles H. Spurgeon; 1834-1892

“This deliverance is absolutely necessary for a participation in the inheritance of saints, unto which none is received who is not a child of light, and has not renounced the servitude of error and sin.” John Daille  (1594-1670)

“It would much support thy heart under adversity to consider that God by such humbling providences may be accomplishing that for which you have long prayed and waited.”  John Flavel (1628-1691)

“The believing soul is convinced of its own weakness and helplessness, and inability to resist its enemies, its insufficiency to keep itself, and so commits itself to Christ, that He would be its keeper.”  Jonathan Edwards  (1703-1758)

“Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning,  let it engage my thoughts and affections.” Abbot  (1870)

“Calvinism holds that the fall left man totally unable to do anything meriting salvation, that he is wholly dependent on divine grace for the inception and development of spiritual life.”  Loraine Beottner  (1901-1990)

“An infirmity is this –when the purpose and inclination of the heart is upright, but a man wants strength to perform that purpose; when “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’ (Matt. 16:41); when a man can say with the apostle, “To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not,” 7:18  When the bent and inclination of the soul is right, but either through some violence of corruption or strength of temptation, a man is diverted and turned out of the way.  As the needle in the seaman’s compass, you know if it be right it will stand always northwards, the bent of it will be toward the North Pole, but being jogged and troubled, it may sometimes be put out of frame and order, yet the bent and inclination of it is still northward; this is an infirmity.”  James Nalton  (1600-1662)

“How should our spirits do other than  fail when our Comforter sleeps, when our only friend seems to be our enemy?  Failing of spirit is both a motive which God means to yield unto and to be won by withal; and it is also his opportunity, when he usually helps.”  Thomas Calvert