The Kayelton Group

“The Spirit is our comforter; or to choose the path of duty in times of perplexity—the Spirit is our guide; or to engage in prayer—the Spirit is the Spirit of grace and supplication; or to cultivate any one of the graces of Christian character—they are all ‘fruits of the Spirit’.”  (James Buchanan; 1804-1870)

“The man who has drained the cup of pleasure can best tell the taste of its dregs.”  (William Arnot; 1808-1875)

“The inference from God’s words to Moses is, that the bestowal of the Divine mercy depends not on man’s will or man’s effort, but simply on ‘God that sheweth mercy’  (Rom. 9: 15-16).”  (Edwin Hamilton Gifford  (1820-1905)

The soul is the theatre where moral actions, both good and bad, are performed.  ”As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.´ What we will, that we morally do.  This doctrine suggests, that the world is really worse than it appears.  It appears bad enough; its outward features and procedures are most repulsive to the eye of reflective virtue; but not a tithe of the heart’s dispositions does the body represent.  The soul has a word of sentiment that neither tongue nor pen expresses; it is conscious of hosts of volitions that the muscles and limbs never carry into effect.  We thank God that the body is too frail, fully to work out the latent wishes of a depraved world.  (David Thomas; 1813-1894)

“He understands and consults the best interests of His people in every respect.  He took flesh, and knows the infirmities of  human nature by personal experience, that He may sympathize with their condition, and compassionately conduct their concerns.  He was lawfully called and appointer to this function.”  (George Smeaton; 1814-1889)

“This was love indeed, that God should take a filthy, wretched thing, and spread his skirts over it, and cover its nakedness, and swear unto it, and enter into a covenant with it, and make it his;  that is, that he should espouse this loathsome thing to himself, that he would be a husband to it;  this love unfathomable, love inconceivable, self-principle love;  this is the love of God to man, for God is love.”  (James Janeway; 1636-1674)

“And as it is the gift of God, the purchase of Christ, and the work of the Holy Spirit, it is a saving grace.”  (John Colquhoun; 1748-1827)

“Men will never find a remedy for their miseries until, forgetting their own merits, by trusting to which they only deceive themselves, they have learned to betake themselves to the free mercy of God.”  John Calvin; 1509-1564)

“The pious man has no reason to prevent himself and others from seeing into his heart.  His strength is in God, and so he can lay open his weakness.”  (William S. Plumer; 1802-1880)

Our most dangerous foes are within our breasts.  (William H. Van Doren; 1810-1882)