The Kayelton Group

“The Lord’s people are a humbled people, afflicted, emptied, sensible of their need, driven to a daily attendance on God, daily begging of him, and living only upon the hope of what is promised: for so are they here described needy, poor supplicants, and expectants of the performance of what is promised.” (Ps. 19:18).  David Dickson (1583-1662)

“Here, learning can go no farther than the threshold; the key by which the mysteries within are reached, must be furnished by the Spirit of God.” George Burrowes (1811-1894)

“There is a fearful tendency in man to attach the idea of merit to his religious conduct. How many there are who imagine that by their social integrity, their benevolent deeds, their devotional observances, they will procure the favor of their Maker? But he who has this idea has not learned the alphabet of Christianity. Were I as holy as an angel, as devoted as a seraph, could I ever do aught that would merit a single favor from my Maker? No! for the power with which I should work would be His and the instrumentality by which I acted would be His, and the time I employed would be His, and the influence which incited me would be His; what merit then could attach to my operations? How absurd therefore for a sinner to attach the idea of merit to the best of his labors!” David Thomas (1813-1894)

“We are spiritually dumb until God opens our mouth.”   William H. Van Doren (1810-1882)

“The apostasy of the race is universal, and the proof of it is found everywhere from the equator to the poles.” James Madison Pendleton; 1811-1891)

“There is a resting—place for the weary — deep and broad, immovable and sure,–Jesus, the sin-bearing Lamb of God.” Horatius Bonar (1808-1890)

“Men are very unwilling to admit that God should have any end with respect to them greater than their happiness. But his own glory is everywhere in the Scripture represented as the chief end of man’s existence, and of the existence of all things.” Robert Haldane (1772-1854)

“The children of Egypt rush in presumptuously, without command. O my soul, follow God fully, and stagger not. But never move without the light of guidance from on high. Henry Law (1797-1844)

“Every doctrine which can be taught to theologians is taught to children.” John Murray (1898-1975)

“So while we are in the most serious talk with Him, when all other things should be kept out, yet how many chinks there are in the heart, at which a flood of other thoughts come in! Our minds leave God and follow them, they “go after our covetousness,” as the prophet says (Ezek. 33:31). Thomas Goodwin (1600-1679)