The Kayelton Group

“Dangerous prayers.  When lust dictates, wrath may answer.  Let grace dictate, and mercy will answer.”  Unknown

“Yea, the devil, the arch-evil-angel, who seeks to devour, yet must be sent ere he can do ought.”  Richard Clerke  (1634)

“He is the most thankful man that treasures up the mercies of God in his memory, and can feed his faith with what God hath done for him, so as to walk in the strength thereof in present straits.”  (William Gurnall, 1617-1679)

“Suppose a man to be discontented with the appointments of providence; suppose him to murmur and repine at what the Almighty allots him to do or to bear; is he not to be charged with provoking God to change his purpose?  And what is this if it be not “tempting” God—a striving to induce him to swerve from what his plans, though every one of those plans has been settled by infinite wisdom?  Or, again, if any one of us, notwithstanding multiplied proofs of the Divine lovingkindness, doubt or question whether God does indeed love him; of what is he guilty, if not of tempting the Lord, seeing that he solicits God to give additional evidence, as though there were deficiency, and challenges him to fresh demonstrations of what he has already abundantly displayed?”   (Henry Melvill, 1779-1873)

“Whereof we learn, that no danger can hurt when God doth command us to enter into it; and all dangers overcome us if we choose them ourselves, besides God’s commandment.”  John Hooper

“If he is not to be traced, he may be trusted; and that religion is of little value which will not enable a man to trust God where he can neither trace nor see him.”  John Flavel  (1628-1691)

“He walks where we cannot always trace his footsteps.  God moves mysteriously by times, as we all know. There are ways of God which are purposely to try us.  I need not say that it is not at all as if God had pleasure in our perplexities.  Nor is it as if we had no sanctuary to draw near to, where we can rise above it.  But, still, there is a great deal in the ways of God that must be left entirely in his own hands.”  Unknown  (1865)

“There are moments in the life of all believers when God and his ways become unintelligible to them.  They get lost in profound meditation, and nothing is left them but a desponding sigh.  But we know from Paul the apostle that the Holy Spirit intercedes for believers with God when they cannot utter their sighs.”  Romans viii. 26.  Augustus F. Tholuck

“Be it ours to be humbly dependent upon God; for whatever station he may choose to keep us in, godliness alone will prove our promotion and true riches.”  Gregory Bateman  (1862)

“I am persuaded the instances are not rare, of men feeding upon sinful desires, even when through want of opportunity the fear of man, or through some partial restraint of conscience, they dare not carry them into execution.”  John Witherspoon  (1722-1749)