The Kayelton Group

“Is not the reason of our finding so little to praise, to be sought in our having no eyes for his daily miracles?” (Augustus F. Tholuck; 1856)

“The believing soul is convinced of its own weakness and helplessness, and inability to resist its enemies, its insufficiency to keep itself, and so commits itself to Christ, that He would be its keeper.” Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

“Few can bear great and sudden mercies without pride and wantonness, till they are hampered and humbled to carry it moderately.” Samuel Lee (1677)

“Sincere personal conviction, with a life corresponding, is needed to make the faith in the objective sense of any virtue.” Alexander Balmain Bruce (1831-1899)

“We want men who have neither the vanity to suppose that they have fully sounded the depths of theological truth, nor the arrogance of pronounce those heretic who neither adopt their notions nor use their nomenclature; but who, on the contrary, have grace to believe in their own fallibility, and, like John, in a teaching higher than their own.” David Thomas (1813-1894)

“A rich man, who is able to despise in himself whatever there is in him by which pride can be puffed up, is God’s poor man…Such men “confess their poverty with as great humility of spirit, and pray for grace with as great earnestness, as beggars ask alms of the rich.”

(Augustine; 354–430)

“No sooner are the eyes of a sinner’s understanding opened than he begins to see the exceeding sinfulness of sin in his heart and life. He sees his innumerable provocations, and discerns that malignity in sin which he never saw before.” (John Colquhoun 1748-1827)

“God makes use, not only of the imprudence, but of the worst vices of men, to the accomplishment of His own pleasure.” George Lawson (First published 1807)

“Never measure the power of God by that shallow conceit of thine.”

(Thomas Hooker; 1586-1647)

“The first attempt to render spiritual obedience will quickly convince us of our utter helplessness. We might as soon create a world, as create in our hearts one pulse of spiritual life. And yet our inability does not cancel our obligation. Shall God lose his right, because sin has palsied our ability?” ( Charles Bridges; 1794-1869)