The Kayelton Group

“The Lord has appointed various means, and commanded you to use them.  Employ them all, therefore, and instead of depending on them, or relying on your use of them, trust that the Lord Jesus will render them effectual.  If you sincerely desire to repent, you will manifest your sincerity by using with diligence all appointed means.  Meditate seriously then on the sin of your nature, heart, and life, and especially on the exceeding sinfulness of it.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will—they must go further and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, if possible; they dread even a little of God’s silence.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“Those who are ordained unto eternal life were not so ordained on account of any worthiness foreseen in them, or of any good works to be wrought by them, nor yet for their future faith, but purely and solely of free, sovereign grace, and according to the mere pleasure of God.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)

“For with the Lord is mercy…In myself I perceive nothing but wrath, in the devil nothing but hatred, in the world nothing but extreme fury and madness.  But the Holy Ghost cannot lie, which willeth me to trust because there is mercy with the Lord, and with Him is plenteous redemption.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (First published 1878)

“God makes a man righteous by possessing him with a principle of righteousness; which principle is not of nature, but of grace; not of man, but of God.”  (John Bunyan, 1628-1688)

“Cares do, as the word imports, distract the soul and scatter it into wild thoughts, wandering anxieties.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Receive me, then, O Eternal Father, for the sake of our Lord’s merits and words; for he, by his obedience and his death, hath now merited from thee everything which I do not merit of myself.”  Fra Thome de Jesu (date unknown)

“Consider, I intreat you, that without an affecting sense of the hatefulness of sin, there is no humiliation; that without humiliation, there is no true repentance; and that without such repentance, it will be impossible for you to escape the wrath to come.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“To return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; to return good for evil is divine.”  (Alfred Plummer 1841-1926)

“But whatever vies of faith we take, one thing is obvious; that it is from first to last ‘the gift of Go'”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)