The Kayelton Group

“The might of the enemy against us is second only to the power of God.  He is more powerful than any man who has ever lived; and the saints of the Old Testament went down before him.  He tempted and tried the Lord Jesus Christ to the ultimate limit.  Our Lord defeated him, but He alone has succeeded of all ever born of woman.”  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones  (1899-1981)

“For if a man is to be free from discontent and worry it is not enough merely not to murmur but you must be active in sanctifying God’s name in the affliction.”  Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646)

“For if our faith should depend upon ourselves, surely it would soon flip from us, and it might be shaken off, if it were not maintained from above. “  John Calvin  (1509-1564)

“Rather than give way to doubt and unbelief, let us fall down in lowly adoration at his feet, take His truth, and rejoice in Him as our hope and our everlasting consolation.”  Joseph Augustus Seiss  (1823-1904)

“He is the Alpha, and also the Omega!  Nothing exists that does exist, nothing moves that does move, nothing develops that does develop, nothing happens that does happen, whether light or darkness, whether sin or grace, whether the devil or antichrist, whether life or death, whether sickness or health, whether prosperity or adversity, whether joy or sorrow, whether war or peace, whether angels or principalities or powers,–nothing in heaven or in earth or in hell exists or acts but for Him!”  Herman Hoeksema (1886-1965)

“Even in the saints themselves, with all the forces that faith can muster, sin is scarcely kept under, but the flesh will be lusting against the spirit.  And when their affections do not cleave to sin, yet sin will cleave to their affections and make them cry out with St. Paul, O wretch that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death?  The victory is by Christ Jesus; it is death which kills sin.” Ralph Venning  (1621-1674)

“No one becomes a profligate at once.  But “evil communications corrupt good manners.” (1 Cor. Xv.33.)  The tender conscience becomes less sensitive by every compliance.  Who can stop himself in the down-hill road?  One sin prepares for another, pleads for it, nay, even makes it necessary for concealment.”  Charles Bridges  (1794-1869)

“That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy-seat, and that keeps Christ and the soul asunder, or that shall render the soul unfit for communion of saints, is a sinful sorrow.”  Thomas Brooks  (1608-1680)

“Why do you turn on Me as if I had suddenly changed, and become forgetful of My promise?  Alas, my friends how often is God slandered by our complaints!  How often do we feel and even speak as if He had broken His word and forgotten His promise, as if He had induced us to trust in Him, and accept His service, only to humiliate us before the world, and forsake us in some great crisis!”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“He made all the persons, and he makes all those differences Himself as it pleaseth Him; therefore He doth not admire them as we do, no, nor at all regard them.  We find very great odds betwixt stately places and poor cottages, betwixt a prince’s robes and a beggar’s cloak; but to God they are all one; all these petty differences vanish in comparison of his own greatness.”  Robert Leighton (1611-1684)