The Kayelton Group

“Those who love God delight to hold communion with him; and there are some feelings which the spiritual mind finds peculiar comfort and pleasure in telling to God himself.”  (Francis Bourdillon; 1881)

“It is possible to expect too little from God, but never too much.”  (Frans Bakker; 1919-1965)

“God promiseth salvation before he giveth it, to excite our desire of it, to exercise our faith, to prove our sincerity, to perfect our patience.  For these purposes he seemeth sometimes to have forgotten his word, and to have deserted those whom he had engaged to succor and relieve; in which case he would have us, as it were, to remind him of his promise, and solicit his performance of it.”  (George Horne)

“Whatever dangerous errors a child of God may be overtaken with, yet he will at length recover out of them.”  (George Hutcheson; 1580-1639)

“It may keep your heart from shrinking back, to consider that death is necessary to fit you for the full enjoyment of God.”  (John Flavel; 1628-1691)

“And as man hath not an eye to see the wonderful works of God spiritually until it is given; so, much less hath he an eye to see the wonders of the word of God till it be given him from above.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“Oh, if I could but creep one foot, or half a foot, nearer to Jesus, in such a dismal night as that when he is away, I should think it a happy absence!  If I knew that the Beloved were only gone away for trial, and further humiliation, and not smoked out of the house with new provocations, I would forgive desertions and hold my peace at his absence.  But Christ’s brought absence (that I brought with my sin), is like two running boils at once, one upon each side; and what side then can I lie on?”  Samuel Rutherford  (1600-1661)

“It would be far easier to arrest the sun in his course, than to hinder the performance of any promise that God has made to His people.”  (George Lawson; 1749-1820)

“No one has less cause for despair than he who has lost hope in himself, and really learns to seek in God that, which he deeply feels, he least of all can give himself.”  (J. J. Van Oosterzee  1874)

“The preaching of false doctrine may build up a church composed of ‘wood, hay, and stubble,’ but the preaching of truth alone can rear a church composed of ‘gold, silver, and  precious stones.”  (Octavius Winslow  1808-1878)