The Kayelton Group

“God would have us to depend on Him though we do not see how the thing may be brought about; otherwise we do not show a quiet spirit.”  Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646)

“For the fact of the creation is regarded in the Bible as a fact revealed; and, as such, it is commended to our faith.  Thus the scriptural method on this subject is exactly the reverse of what is called the natural.  It is not to ascend from nature up to nature’s God, but to descend, if we may so speak, from God to God’s nature, or His works of nature; not to hear the creation speaking of the Creator, but to hear the Creator speaking of the creation.”  R.S. Candlish (1806-1873)

This daily thought is exceedingly long, but it speaks volumes.  The Kayelton Group

“We cannot attain to a comprehension of all the wisdom of God.  We cannot see how its several parts cohere with each other, or how they consist with the perfections of Him who designed it and who is conducting it.  There is much that, to human view , seems to be at variance with a well-ordered administration.  There is much that we cannot account for, much that we cannot understand.  There are many things in the management of the world that completely baffle every attempt to unriddle them.  We cannot see why they are, nor why God permits them, nor how He can consistently permit them.  With our limited understandings and our restricted range of observation, we cannot pretend to fathom the bottomless deep, nor measure what has no bound.  We cannot, even by the most prolonged search of the most elaborate investigation, attain to a thorough understanding of God’s infinite designs.  But the keenest insight and the most indefatigable application of the human faculties fail to discover the Wisdom that rules in all  The secret that resolves all mysteries, harmonizes all strifes, reconciles all contradictions, and reduces this seemingly inextricable confusion to perfect symmetry and order is hidden in the God’s mind alone.”  William Henry Green (1848-1924)

“Abraham, being strong in the faith, gave glory to God; and this is the nature of faith, even in its weakest degree.”  John Fawcett (1740-1817)

“The more we are conscious that the good things which we enjoy are the free gifts of our Father, the more conscious we are likely to be of the miserable return which we have made to Him.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“If the imputation of Adams’s sin and of Christ’s righteousness be doctrines contained in the word of God; commentaries that labour to expel them from that word must be grossly pestiferous books, which no Christian ought to recommend, but which, on the contrary, to the utmost of his power, it is his duty  to oppose.”  Robert Haldane  (1772–1854)

“So the authority to preach the gospel is an unmerited privilege, and is so confessed by Paul himself.  Eph. 3:8.  No man deserves to be a minister of Christ.  Salvation from first to last is of grace.  No man deserves pardon, acceptance, renewal or eternal life.  1 Cor. 15:10; Eph. 1:7; 2:5; Rom. 4:16.”  William S. Plumer  (1802-1880)

“When therefore we are encompassed on every side, let us look to the hand of the Lord to execute the plan which he may have prepared for our deliverance.”  Alexander Carson  (1776-1844)

“Shame, then, and guilt and woe would be my portion, if I should leave any effort untried to unfold His glorious image.  Let me rather use every power of life and pen to magnify and exalt Him:–to beseech men to ponder Him—to search for Him—to receive Him—to love Him—to follow Him—to serve Him—to commend Him—to live in Him, and through Him, and for Him.”  Henry Law  (1797-1884)

“Very often the soul cannot rise, she has lost her wings, and is heavy and earth-bound; more like a burrowing mole than a soaring eagle.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)