The Kayelton Group

“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

“If we open our mouths to God in prayer, he will fill them more and more with suitable petitions and arguments.  When we attempt to open the mouth, God will open it still wider.”  Benjamin Beddome  (1717-1795)

“It is a comfort to see that God’s power works effectually and irresistibly, the very same power as wrought in Christ to raise Him from the dead.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Let no appearing impossibilities make you question God’s accomplishment of any of his gracious words. Though you cannot see how the thing can be done, ‘tis enough, if God has said that he will do it…Though the valleys be so deep that we cannot see the bottom, and the mountains so high that we cannot see the tops of them, yet God knows how to raise the one and level the other.”  (Timothy Cruso; 1656-1697)

“When matters are raveled and disordered, God can find out the right end of the thread and how to disentangle us again; and when we have spoiled a business, he can dispose it for good and make an advantage of those things which seem to obscure the glory of his name.”  (Thomas Manton; 1620-1677)

“Is not the reason of our finding so little to praise due to the fact that we have no eyes for his daily miracles?”  (Augustus F. Tholuck; 1856)

“What comfort ought this to afford under every condition!  For the Lord Jesus goes before us through the desert.  He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities.”  Ridley H. Herschell  (1807-1864)

“There is nothing which God requires of his people, as to be done by them, but he himself helps them in the doing of it.”  (Thomas Horton; 1673)

“For his sake, not for our own, are we chosen; in him, not in ourselves, are we received by God, being accepted in the Beloved; and, therefore, in him are we blessed: he is our blessing.”  Unknown  (1859)

“Lord, thou art my righteousness, and I am thy sin: thou hast taken from me what was mine, and given me what was thine.”  “Oh, sweet exchange! Oh, benefits beyond all expectation!”  (Alexander A. Bonar; 1810-1892)