The Kayelton Group

“As to the crook in your lot, God has made it; and it must continue while He will have it so.  Should you apply your utmost force to even it, or make it straight, your attempt will be vain:…Only He who made it can mend it, or make it straight.”  Thomas Boston (1677-1732)

It is an unspeakable privilege, that we have a God to go to in our afflictions, and it is our duty to go to him, and thus to wrestle with him, and we shall not seek in vain.”  Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

“God’s aim in your afflictions is not destruction, but trial; as gold is put into the furnace to be fined, not consumed.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“God is, and always was so perfectly wise, that nothing He ever did, or does, can elude His knowledge.  He knew, from all eternity, not only what He Himself intended to do, but also what He would incline and permit others to do.  ‘Known unto God are all His works from eternity.’”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)

“The perfect revelation then of God is in Jesus Christ our Lord.”  Andrew Jukes  (1815-1901)

“It is the blood of infinite value, and truly capable of counterpoising and prevailing against the infinite demerit of your crimes.”  John Daille (1594-1670)

“The power of godliness did never thrive better than in affliction, and was never less thriving than in times of greatest prosperity:  when ‘we are left a poor and an afflicted people, then we learn to trust in the name of the Lord.’”  John Flavel (1628-1691)

“As the mercies that are with the Lord are tender, great, rich, a multitude, and manifold; so they are mercies that DIMINISH NOT in the using, but that rather increase in the exercising of them.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“But out of the very midst of the furnace the sufferer can say, ‘Lord, before Thee is all my desire—in Thee, O Jehovah, have I hoped;’  I can cry with all the earnestness of a faith purified by affliction, ‘Leave me not, be not far from me, O Lord, my Salvation.’”  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (1823-1904)

“That the plans of men are not always executed is due to a lack of power, or a lack of wisdom; but since God is unlimited in these and all other resources, no unforeseen emergencies can arise, and to Him the causes for change have no existence.  To suppose that His plans fail and that He strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of  His creatures.”  Loraine Boettner  (1901-1990)