The Kayelton Group

“Vanity is but  foolishness.  In Prov. 12:11, vain men are said to be  “void of understanding.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“In other words, He foreknows everything, because He has arranged everything.  Everything is certain in His foreknowledge, because everything is certain in His arrangements.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“The higher we rise in the kingdom, the more we shall be like Jesus in this humbling of Himself.”  Alexander Balmain Bruce  (1831-1899)

I offer the following description:  Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.  (Jeremiah Burroughs; 1599-1646)

“The perfection of our graces is not discovered till we are put upon many and great trials.  As a pilot’s skill is discerned in a storm, so is a Christian’s grace in many and great troubles.”  (Thomas Manton; 1620-1677)

“However deeply despondent I may be by my sense of unworthiness as I approach the throne, let me turn to and believingly ponder the infinite worthiness of Jesus Christ.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“The unborn Baptist could not restrain emotion, when the unborn Jesus was brought near.”  Henry Law  (1797-1884)

“If convictions begin to work, instantly yield to their influence.  If any worldly or sinful desire is touched, let this be the moment for its crucifixion.”  Charles Bridges  (1794-1869)

“The higher the waters rise, the nearer Noah’s ark was lifted up to heaven; the more thy afflictions are increased, the more thy heart shall be raised heavenward.”  (Thomas Brooks; 1608-1680)

“The soul of man unconverted is no other than a den of impure lusts, wherein dwell pride, uncleanness, avarice, malice, &c., just as Babylon is described, Rev. xviii. 2, or as Isa, xiii. 21.  Were a man’s eyes opened, he would as much abhor to remain with himself in that condition as to dwell in a house full of snakes and serpents.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)