The Kayelton Group

“So while we are in the most serious talk with Him, when all other things should be kept out, yet how many chinks there are in the heart, at which a flood of other thoughts come in!  Our minds leave God and follow them, they “go after our covetousness,” as the prophet says (Ezek. 33:31).  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“If God really is our Master, all the resources of heaven and earth are at our back.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1821-1899)

 “If he be not JEHOVAH in the highest sense, we lose all confidence in the vicarious character of His death, and are compelled to resign our long and fondly cherished hope of salvation through His cross—the perfection of His atoning work falling with the dignity of His person.”Octavius Winslow  (1808-1878)

“Everything that can be called good in man, or in the universe, originates in the “I will” of Jehovah.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot;  they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will—they must go further and obtain actual replies from haven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, if possible; they dread even a little of God’s silence.”  Charles H.Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“But as a black background in a picture, which in itself may be thought by some to detract, sets off the lighter colors and heightens their beauty, so the evil of sin, considered absolutely, obscures the glory of God.  Yet by the overruling disposition of His providence sin serves to illustrate His name and to make it more glorious in the esteem of reasonable creatures.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“The most proper means used for compassing an end are insignificant without a word of Divine appointment, commanding their success.  ‘Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?”  Thomas Boston (1677-1732)

“From all eternity God has purposed to do just exactly what He is doing.”  Loraine Boettner (1901-1990)

“Certainly, nothing maketh afflictions burdensome to us but our own carnal affections.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“We have reason to believe that all finite minds are under the direction of the Supreme Power, who, without destroying their accountability or interfering with their agency makes all their operations subservient to the accomplishment of his counsels.”   James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)