The Kayelton Group

“The existence of God is the greatest of mysteries.  Neither man nor angel can comprehend it.  There must be heights and depths in the Infinite that can never be measured by the finite.”  James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)

“It is not ours to resolve all difficulties in our understanding of God’s ways with men.”  John Murray  (1898-1975)

“Not only were we unable to bring ourselves into the faith but we cannot continue in it without divine strength.  Because of our proneness to apostatize, the subtlety and strength of our spiritual enemies, the evil of the world in which we live, God’s power alone can keep us “ (Jude 24).  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“The Lord alone has authority to impute righteousness, as it is entirely an act of grace to the penitent transgressor.”  James G. Murphy  (1808-1896)

“No sooner are the eyes of a sinner’s understanding opened than he begins to see the exceeding sinfulness of sin in his heart and life.  He sees his innumerable provocations, and discerns that malignity in sin which he never saw before.”  (John Colquhoun  1748-1827)

“I was born for nothing but repentance.”  Tertullian (160–240)

“If we open our mouths to God in prayer, he will fill them more and more with suitable petitions and arguments.  When we attempt to open the mouth, God will open it still wider.”  Benjamin Beddome  (1717-1795)

“It is a comfort to see that God’s power works effectually and irresistibly, the very same power as wrought in Christ to raise Him from the dead.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Let no appearing impossibilities make you question God’s accomplishment of any of his gracious words.  Though you cannot see how the thing can be done, ‘tis enough, if God has said that he will do it…Though the valleys be so deep that we cannot see the bottom, and the mountains so high that we cannot see the tops of them, yet God knows how to raise the one and level the other.”  (Timothy Cruso; 1656-1697)

“What comfort ought this to afford under every condition!  For the Lord Jesus goes before us through the desert.  He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities.”  Ridley H. Herschell  (1807-1864)