The Kayelton Group

“I am anxious to be pleasing to God and to be filled with His Spirit; but I am not at all justified or accounted righteous by these things.  God, in justifying me, acted wholly and only on Christ’s blood-shedding on my behalf.”   (William R. Newell)

“The word ‘ungodly’ is a strong one and shows the magnitude and extent of God’s grace; his justifying judgment is exercised not simply upon the unrighteous but upon the ungodly.”  (John Murray on Romans)

“Works are not taken into consideration when the question respects justification.  But true faith will no more fail to produce them than the sun can cease to give light.”  (Martin Luther; 1483-1546)

“Your portrait and mine are being painted, and God by wondrous strokes and influences is working us up to his own ideal.  Over and above what you are doing for yourself, God is working to make you like him.”  (Henry Ward Beecher;  1862)

“Co-heir with Jesus Christ, who is the heir of all things, and hast an infinite mass of riches laid up for thee; so great and infinite, that all the stars of heaven are too few to account it by:  you have no reason to complain of being kept short; for all that God has is yours, whether prosperity or adversity, life or death, all is yours.  What God gives is for your comfort.”  (Ezekiel Hopkins)

Oh!  ‘tis a sad thing to have one’s portion of good only in this life.”  (Ralph Venning;  1620-1673)

“It will be a great comfort to us if trouble when it comes, finds the wheels of prayer a-going, for then may we come with the more boldness to the throne of grace.”  (Matthew Henry)

“God will not only hear our cry, but also hears us before we cry and will help us.”  T. Playfere)

“The more ready the Scripture is with us, the greater advantage in our conflicts and temptations.”  (Thomas Manton; 1620-1677)

“Prayer is not a work of the head, or hand, or eyes only, but chiefly a work of the heart; therefore called in Scripture, the “pouring out of the soul” (1 Sam. 1:15);  and the “pouring out of the heart.”  (Psalm 62:8)  (Thomas Gouge;  1605-1681)