The Kayelton Group

“We are not only loved, and freed from our sins, but, if indeed we are Christians, we are princes and priests, named and anointed for immortal regencies and eternal priesthoods.”  Joseph Augustus Seiss  (1823-1904)

“Our loins were before ‘filled with pain’ (Isaiah 21:3), because sin’s ‘loathsome disease’ spread  through them (Psalm 38:3); therefore now we consecrate their strength, using it all for Him, ‘the effectual working of whose power’ has set us free.  Yea, whatever can be found anywhere in or about our heart and reins, we yield it all to Him who ‘poured out His soul `unto death.’  This is communion with God.”  A. A. Bonar (1810-1892)

“Self-Control!—This cannot be acquired in an instant…to possess it is because we have learned to hand it over to Jesus Christ; to be self-controlled because we are Christ-controlled—this does not come easily or at once.  Only through long years of temptation and failure, and faith, do we come at last to learn that we are nothing, and can effect nothing, and hand over the entire control and management of the inner life to Him Who is able to keep us from falling, and present us before the throne of His glory with exceeding joy.”  Frederick Brotherton Meyer  (1847-1929)

“And how does it work, when we thus anticipate God, by going our own way?  We bring, in many instances, guilt on our conscience; but if not, we certainly weaken faith, instead of increasing it; and each time we work thus a deliverance of our own, we find it more and more difficult to trust in God, till at last we give way entirely to our natural fallen reason, and unbelief prevails.”  George Muller  (1805-1898)

“Though there can never really be room for any boasting on man’s part before God, yet boasting will intrude; nor can it be shut out “by the law of works,” which rather tends to foster self-righteousness.”  Edwin Hamilton Gifford  (1820-1905)

“The Lord’s apprehended absence in trouble, and delaying to answer the supplicant, putteth a load above a burden, and surpasseth all expression of words; for here his speech is cut ,but thou O Lord, how long?  David Dickson  (1583-1662)

“The duty of an interpreter of Scripture is to search for the mind of the Spirit.”  George Burrowes  (First published 1853)

“There is no sin in the mere possession of any thought, but in the entertainment that is given to it.”  David Thomas  (1813-1894)

“The mercies of God are thus dispensed in such a way as to cut off all ground for boasting on the part of those who are justified.  They are, on the contrary, calculated to exalt the Divine sovereignty, and to humble those in the dust who are saved before Him who worketh all things according to the counsel of His own will, and, without giving any account of His matters, either justifies or condemns the guilty according to His supreme pleasure.”  Robert Haldane (1764-1842)

“God establishes His covenant and Church in the line of continued generations, in order that one generation may enter into the fruit of the of another.  Thus the truth is preserved from age to age under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.”  Herman Hoeksema  (1886-1965)