The Kayelton Group

“All experience teaches that the holier men become, the more convinced they are of their own sinfulness.”  (Alfred Plummer; 1841-1926)

“To enter the place of a doer before you have occupied that of a listener, is to reverse God’s order and throw everything into confusion.”  Unknown  (1859)

“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)

“Men are prone to be deluded by externals, and to suppose that the absence of outward splendor is indicative of the absence of God’s blessing, forgetting that God often chooses the weak things of the earth to confound the mighty, that no flesh may glory in his presence.”  Thomas v. Moore  (1856)

“The goodness of God is a spiritual sunbeam to melt the heart into tears. Oh, says the soul has God been so good to me?  Has He reprieved me so long from hell, and shall I grieve His Spirit any more?  Shall I sin against goodness?”  Thomas Watson   (1620-1686)

“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)