The Kayelton Group

“The joy, the rest, the refreshing, the comfort, the contents, the smiles, the incomes that saints now enjoy, in the ways of God, are so precious and glorious in their eyes, that they would not exchange them for ten thousands worlds.”  (Thomas Brooks  1608-1680)

“He who makes it his chief aim to gain the favour of his world, thereby becomes an enemy of God.”  (Joseph B. Mayor  1828-1916)

“It is not that you are so good and devout as to lift up yourself to God, but it is of His Divine compassion that He comes down to you, in order to enrich and bless you with the consciousness of His nearness.”  (Abraham Kuyper  1837-1920)

“World leaders today turn to every known source of human wisdom, but they will not turn to God and His Word.”  (Lehman Strauss 1911-1997)

“Observe that they who are entitled to all comfort, often through their own folly, enjoy the least.”  James Smith (1647)

“Worship does not lie within human directions, rules, stipulations, military threatening or social penalties.  Worship is a condition of the soul; it is an instinct of the life and it belongs to the interior nature.  It can only be spoken to by one voice with authority, and that is the voice of God.”  (Philip R. Newell 1962)

“If we would be humble, we must look not on ourselves, but on him; if we would truly love, we must look not on ourselves, but on him who dwells in the heavens.  If we would have him turn his eyes from our sins, we must turn our eyes unto his mercy and truth.”  (Plain Commentary)

“In your weakness, Christ will give you strength.  In your terror, Christ will be your consolation.”  (Joseph A. Seiss  1823-1904)

“You say, I am not only tempted to doubt whether I be the child of God or not; but I labor under sad and fearful temptations.  I am tempted to strange and horrid things, such as I fear to name.”  (William Bridge 1600-1671)

“We could not but be cast down except that some Shield, far stronger than our own struggles or our own resolves, were cast around us.  And where can we find this shelter, but in Jesus?”  (Henry Law 1797-1884)