The Kayelton Group

“It was God’s foreseeing that Abraham would not choose Him, that made election necessary.   Election proceeds not upon foreseen faith in us, but upon foreseen unbelief.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“Piety is not commended by sadness and sourness.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“Let the living principles of divine grace be imparted to the soul, and the believer will be raised above dismay at the face of men.”   John Stephen

“See Satan how he pitcheth his nets and layeth his ambushes to induce and persuade us to come into them, what sayeth he?  Dost thou not see thyself forsaken of thy God?  Where are the promises whereunto thou didst trust?  Now here thou seest thyself to be a wretched, forlorn creature.  So then thou right well seest that God hath deceived thee, and that the promises whereunto thou trustest appertain nothing at  all unto thee.  See here the subtlety of Satan.”  John Calvin  (1509-1564)

“The special reason why the desires to be freed from the company of the wicked is, because they always tempt the pious by relating the pleasures of the world, which are nothing but fables, filthy, fleeting pleasures, more fallacious than real—nothing like the grand and solid pleasure that always flows from a pious observance of the law of the Lord.”  Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)

Sound faith is neither suspicious nor curious; it believes what God says, without sight, without examining.”  Richard Clerke  (1634)

“Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God’s word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.”  William Gurnall (1617-1679)

“There are no circumstances in this life, and none in death, where God cannot assist us.”  Albert Barnes (1798-1870)

“It is a great cause oftentimes why God blesseth not means, because we are so apt to trust in them, and rob God of his glory, not waiting for a blessing at his hands.”  Abraham Wright (1611-1690)

“It may perhaps be considered beneath the dignity and solemnity of our subject to remark, that this 8^th verse of this Psalm is the middle verse of the Bible.  There are, I believe, 31,174 verses in all, and this is the 15,587^th.”  (Psalm 118)  Barton Bouchier   (1794-1865)