The Kayelton Group

“Such as can see the ordering hand of God in all their afflictions will, with David, lay their hands upon their mouths, when the rod of God is upon their backs (2 Sam. 16:11-12).   If God’s hand be not seen in the affliction, the heart will do nothing but fret and rage under affliction.” Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)

“This reasoning leads us to the glad tidings of the glorious Gospel. All is provided for us in the Saviour Jesus The Righteousness needed by us, and presented to us, in His obedience. He does for us, what we could never have done. In Him we become what we never could have been without Him. He works out an infinite worthiness, that He may be to us all that His name imports. “The Lord our Righteousness.” Henry Law (1797-1884)

No one with proper ideas of God believes that He has to change His mind every few days to make room for unexpected happenings which were not included in His original plan. If the perfection of the divine plan be denied, no consistent stopping place will be found short of atheism.  Loraine Boettner (1901-1990)

“There are doctrines taught in the Bible of which the unaided intellect of man could have formed no conception.” James Madison Pendleton (1811-1891)

“But let faith’s eagle-eye pierce the clouds and darkness that surround the throne, and behold the heart of God is still love, all love, and nothing but love, to his afflicted, bereaved, and sorrow-stricken child, and in a moment every murmur will be hushed, every rebellious feeling will be still, and every unkind thought will lay in the dust; and, ‘He hath done all things well,–in love and faithfulness hath he afflicted me,’ will be the only sounds uttered by the lips.” Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)

“God must be known in His glorious attributes, and these are revealed to us in the Bible.” Claude Duval Cole (1885-1960)

“The higher the waters rise, the nearer Noah’s ark was lifted up to heaven; the more thy afflictions are increased, the more thy heart shall be raised heavenward.” Thomas Brooks; 1608-1680

“It is an appeal for ‘mercy,’ which even joyful believers need; and it is sought for in a proportion which the Lord has sanctioned. ‘According to your faith be it unto you,’ is the Master’s word, and he will not fall short of the scale which he has himself selected. Yet, Master, do more than this when hope is faint, and bless us far above what we ask or even think.” Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1898)

“And though the expression, Keep thy heart, seems to put it upon us as our work, yet it does not imply a sufficiency in us to do it. We are as able to stop the sun in its course, or to make the rivers run backward, as by our own skill and power to rule and order our hearts.” John Flavel (1628-1691)

“And one may have confessed and sincerely repented of that sin, which yet shall make him go halting to the grave. ‘You were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance on their inventions.” Thomas Boston (1608-1680)