The Kayelton Group

“Nearness to God is the foundation of a creature’s happiness.”  Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

“Let a moment’s failure of his power, of his watchfulness, or of his will to do good, occur, and what a sweep of death and annihilation through the universe!  William Howitt  (1792-1879)

“God did not elect me as a helper, nor create me, nor redeem me, nor convert me, by way of helping me: for he alone did all, and he had no use at all for me.”  John Donne (1572-1631)

“There is neither grace nor peace for man, except through Christ.”  Joseph Augustus Seiss  (1823-1904)

“And if now, my Christian brother, the God who made all things, evil as well as good,–sickness, pain, poverty, distress,–is your Savior;  if He is ever seen by you, and His voice is heard telling you, even of that which presently afflicts you, that He made it as He made you,–how complete is your confidence.”  R.S. Candlish (1806-1873)

“His choice is not determined by the merit of man’s works, but by His own free and undeserved mercy, for it is proved by His words to Moses and to Pharaoh that “on whom he will, he hath mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.”  Edwin Hamilton Gifford  (1820-1905)

“Men have remission of sins through faith;they are justified by faith; their hearts are purified by faith; they live, they walk, they stand by faith; they overcome all enemies by faith; they are kept by the power of God through faith, and, to comprehend all in one word, they are saved by faith.  How necessary, how important then is the apostle’s exhortation, “Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith!”  John Fawcett (1740-1817)

“Mercy and grace are all-sufficient.  One crumb of these is worth more than all the riches of the world.”  Frans Bakker  (1919-1965)

“And what talent can be compared with the knowledge of the will of God?”  Alexander Carson  (1776-1844)

“Yet every kind of trial is to be accepted as a necessary means of strengthening our characters, for there can be no virtue without temptations to vice, temptations which come from the evil one.”  (Alfred Plummer; 1841-1926)