The Kayelton Group

“Comparatively few who occasionally read the Bible are aware of the awe-inspiring and worship-provoking grandeur of the divine character.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

 “It is the great work of faith to cry out after God, at a distance, when you are afraid lest at the next turn he should be quite out of sight.”  John Owen (1616-1683)

“There is a fearful tendency in man to attach the idea of merit to his religious conduct.  How many there are who imagine that by their social integrity, their benevolent deeds, their devotional observances, they will procure the favour of their Maker?  But he who has this idea has not learned the alphabet of Christianity.  Were I as holy as an angel, as devoted as a seraph, could I ever do aught that would merit a single favour from my Maker?  No!  For the power with which I should work would be His and the instrumentality by which I acted would be His, and the time I employed would be His, and the influence which incited me would be His; what merit, then, could attach to my operations?  How absurd therefore, for a sinner to attach the idea of merit to the best of his labours!”  David Thomas  (1813-1894)

“We are spiritually dumb,until God opens our mouth.”  William H. Van Doren  (1810-1882)

“O teach me to know myself, the deep depravity of my nature, the guiltiness of my whole life, the purity of that law which I have violated, the inflexibility of that holiness and justice which I have offended, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and my own utter inability to do any thing, towards delivering my own soul out of that state of to which I have brought myself.”  John Fawcett (1740-1817)

“Unbelief doth only discourage God from showing his power in taking our parts. “  (Stephen Charnock; 1628-1680)

“At the end of every period of testing, there is always rejoicing.  It may appear to our short-sightedness an awful, troublesome long time, but come it will, come it must.”  Unknown

”O Lord, I confess I am a poor prisoner to sin and Satan, I would fain be set at liberty to believe thy word, and to do thy will; but, alas, I cannot.  I find many a door fast shut upon me in this prison, and many a lock upon the doors, many lets and impediments which I am never able to remove; and therefore, gracious Lord, do that for me, which neither I myself nor all the friends I can make are able to do for me; pay the debts of thy poor prisoner in my blessed Surety, and set open the prison doors.”  Matthew Lawrence  (1657)

“I stretch forth my hands unto thee,” as if I were in hope thou wouldst take me by the hand and draw me to thee.”  Sir Richard Baker (1568 -1645)

“The Christian, while in this world, lives in an unwholesome climate; one while, the delights of it deaden and dull his love of Christ; another while, the trouble he meets in it damps his faith on the promise.”  William Gurnall  (1617-1679)