The Kayelton Group

“Hand.”  “With the hand we demand, we promise, we call, dismiss, threaten, entreat, supplicate, deny, refuse, interrogate, admire, reckon, confess, repent; express shame, express doubt; we instruct, command, unite, encourage, swear, testify, accuse, condemn, acquit, insult, despise, defy, disdain, flatter, applaud, bless, abase, ridicule, reconcile, recommend, exalt, regale, gladden, complain, afflict, discomfort, discourage, astonish; exclaim, indicate silence, and what not?  With a variety and a multiplication that keep pace with the tongue.”  (Michael de Montaigne  1522-1592)

“Christians are often more anxious and perplexed about their success, than with respect to their duty.”  (Robert Haldane;  1712-1854)

“Divine sovereignty, therefore, must not be considered as a blind partiality, or a dictate of mere will without wisdom; but as the exercise of an all-comprehensive understanding, and of a will that is inflexibly right, ordering all the affairs of Jehovah’s vast empire for the manifestation of his own glorious attributes.”  (Abraham Booth;  1743-1806)

“Pre-eminently He was the Lamb of God, and He was sacrificed for us.  Let us reckon ourselves judged in Him.  The Judgment which has befallen Him has settled the great question of sin.  He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed.”  Frederick Brotherton Meyer  (1847-1929)

“I was held before conversion, not with an iron chain, but with the obstinacy of mine own will.”  (Augustine; 354-430)

“The righteous get good out of all the evil that befalls them, but the wicked so pervert everything as to get evil out of all the good sent them.”  (William S. Plumer; 1867)

“Errors cannot be adorned, no matter how skillfully one may try.”  (Joseph Caryl;  1602-1673)

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,”  That is, that are emptied of themselves, and look upon themselves as having nothing, deserving nothing, able to do nothing spiritually.”  (Thomas Goodwin; 1600-1679)

“If the Lord had allowed you to have done what you had sometimes thought to do in a discontented fit, what wretched misery you would have brought upon yourselvelf.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs;  1599-1646)

“But now, God speaks  and I am dumb; He opens His mouth, and I hold my peace.  I bid my busy, speculative soul be quiet.  I am still, and know that it is God.  I now at once and recognize a real and living Person, beyond and above myself.  I take my station humbly, submissively at His feet.”  R.S. Candlish