The Kayelton Group

Some men are kept back from sin for lack of opportunity; if they had it they would sin. (Ralph Venning; (1622-1674)

Thoughts are sins! The law judges them, rebukes a man for them, and therefore they are transgressions of the law. Thoughts are capable of pardon, they must be pardoned if we are to be saved, which argues the multitudes of God’s mercies, for thoughts are so infinite, thoughts are to be repented of. And a man is never truly and thoroughly wrought on until his “every thought is brought into obedience,” which argues that they are naturally rebellious and contrary to grace. (Thomas Goodwin; 1600-1679)

“It is not ours to resolve all difficulties in our understanding of God’s ways with men.” John Murray (1898-1975)

“Not only were we unable to bring ourselves into the faith but we cannot continue in it without divine strength. Because of our proneness to apostatize, the subtlety and strength of our spiritual enemies, the evil of the world in which we live, God’s power alone can keep us.” (Jude 24). Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

“Oh, if I could but creep one foot, of half a foot, nearer in to Jesus, in such a dismal night as that when he is away, I should think it a happy absence! If I knew that the Beloved were only gone away for trial, and further humiliation, and not smoked out of the house with new provocations, I would forgive desertions and hold my peace at his absence. But Christ’s brought absence (that I brought with my sin), is two running boils at once, one upon each side; and what side then can I lie on?” Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)

“It is in love that his face is turned away; yet to a real child of God, this hiding of his Father’s is terrible, and he will never be at ease until once more he hath his Father’s smile.”

(Charles H. Spurgeon; 1834-1892)

“Our castle or city is the promises, the word and ordinances of God: now if the devil can but get you out of this castle, he hath you where he would.” (Thomas Hooker 1586-1647)

“It is the heart that speaks, the tongue is but the instrument to give the sound.” (Richard Clerke 1634)

“Deal with Satan as with a subtle adversary, that is full of wiles and fetches.” (Thomas Hooker 1586-1647)

“His natural perfections may excite our intellectual admiration, but cannot awaken our love. Love, however, is the central idea of worship, and there can be no true worship without it.” (James Madison Pendleton; 1811-1891)