The Kayelton Group

“Taking counsel in the soul will drive us in every direction and cause us to surmise things that are so alien to the truth of God that once enlightened, we will shutter at such wild extremes.  Yet, is not this a mirrored reflection of just what we are when the Lord hides His face and is silent with His people?  We add to our sorrow daily and badger our own miserable condition.”  (Author Unknown)

“In respect to any mere natural difficulty, God’s almighty power is more than sufficient to overcome it. There are certain things which may be said to be impossible with God himself—not from any defect of power on his part but from their repugnance to his essential attributes and their opposition to his unchangeable will.”  (James Buchanan  1843)

“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed. The divine excellence of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials.”  (Jonathan Edwards; 1703-1758)

“Those for whom Christ died do not have the virtues in and of themselves to function as a holy, consecrated child of God.  But, the grace that has saved them is the same grace that will preserve them.”  (No name given)

“The intenseness of the affliction renders it trying to our fortitude; but it is by the continuance of it that patience is put to the test.  It is not under the sharpest, but the longest trials, that we are most in danger of fainting.”  (Andrew Fuller; 1754-1815)

“Because the hope of the godly is grounded upon God’s promises, therefore it shall not be disappointed, but God’s mercy shall be on them, according as they hope in him.”  (David Dickson  1583-1662)

“The sacrificial death of God’s Christ was necessary.  There was no other manner by which to reconcile the elect unto God.”  (Author Unknown)

“Those who have once known the unspeakable enjoyment of communion with a reconciled God, cannot long endure the sensible withdrawment of divine mercy.”  (Morrison, 1762-1809)

“There is present to each of us a wicked demon lying in wait for us; a seducer and hater of good, and the same that from the beginning plotted against the salvation of man.”  (Eusebius, 263-339)

“The knowledge of God is the root of knowledge.”   (William Arnot  1808-1875)