The Kayelton Group

Submissive obedience has no motive beyond itself.  It asks no reasons; it cherishes no ulterior purpose.”  (Alfred Edersheim; 1825-1889)

“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; 1657-1697)

“How overwhelmingly necessary it becomes to cast ourselves completely upon the mercy of God and to endeavor to live from day to day in the power and the strength of His indwelling Spirit, for victory over the flesh, and the sin which so easily besets us!”  (Philip R. Newell  1962)

“See the wondrous advantage of trouble–that it makes us call upon God; and again see the wondrous readiness of mercy, that when we call he heareth us!  (J.W. Burgon; 1813-1888)

“No satisfaction can be thus obtained.  Even our prayers can give us no satisfaction if they are infected with this worldly spirit.”  (Joseph B. Mayor  1828-1916)

“No man was ever so laden with sin as the Man Christ Jesus.  No man ever had so much sin to answer for; but He has answered for it all, and it is on Him no longer; He has put it away by the sacrifice of Himself; He has washed it away in His own blood.”  Brownlow North  (1741-1820)

“A man is not saved because he believes in Christ; he believes in Christ because he is saved.  Even the beginning of faith, the disposition to seek salvation, is itself a work of grace and the gift of God.”  (Loraine Boettner; 1901-1990)

“The heart of the Spirit is infinitely more tender towards us than that of the most affectionate parent can be towards an only child.” (John Owen; 1616-1683)

“Everyone who professes to be a Christian must be considered as one who has been ‘born again,’ and in whom the ‘Spirit of God dwells;’ and if this be implied in our profession, oh! how deeply should we be affected by the thought of our many miscarriages, our frequent declensions and decays, and the strength of our remaining corruptions; and how ardently should we desire that, in time to come, we may walk more worthy of the vocation wherewith we have been called, and become altogether such as God’s Spirit would have us to be!”  (James Buchanan  1804-1870)

“While you live, believing on him—when you die, falling asleep in him—you are represented by Christ; you are united to Christ; you are subordinate under Christ.  Christ for you; you in Christ; Christ before you;–such is the ‘threefold cord’ which ‘cannot be quickly broken,’ binding Christ and you together.”  (Robert Candlish  1806-1873)