The Kayelton Group

“The kind of seeking that is wrought of God cannot cease from seeking until it finds the object of its affection, regardless of the difficulties it must overcome.”  (Author not mentioned)

“The first attempt to render spiritual obedience will quickly convince us of our utter helplessness.  We might as soon create a world as to create in our hearts one pulse of spiritual life.  And yet our inability does not cancel our obligation.”  (Charles Bridges; 1794-1869)

“Never doubt, though thy iniquities be ever so great, there is a sea of mercy in God.”  (Richard Stock)

“The way of any sinner’s deliverance from such wrath shows sin to be exceeding great in the price and ransom that is paid for the salvation of him from his sins—the price of the blood of the eternal Son of God.”  (Anthony Palmer; 1678)

“As election is the effect of God’s sovereignty, our pardon the fruit of his mercy, our knowledge a stream from his wisdom, and our strength an impression of his power; so our purity is a beam from his holiness.”  (Stephen Charnock; 1628-1680)

“Contrition and faith, regeneration, conversion, justification, the new life and its development, all the Christian virtues plus perseverance to the end are the operations of grace alone.”  (Richard C. H. Lenski; 1864-1936)

“Devout, and simple tears, which cannot speak, speak aloud in the ears of God.”  (John Donne)

“God knows everything perfectly, and he knows everything perfectly at once.  This to a human understanding, would breed confusion; but there can be no confusion in the Divine understanding, because confusion arises from imperfection.”  (Henry Kirke White;  1785-1806)

“As to the first cause of salvation, the Scripture shows that God alone is its author, who, moved by His infinite goodness, has entirely prepared, procured, and accomplished the satisfaction of His justice, and the purchase of immortality, by sending His Son, the great and precious gift of His grace.”  (John Daille;  1594-1670)

“As every grace increases by exercise of itself, so does the grace of prayer.  By prayer, we learn to pray.”  (Barton Bouchier; 1794-1865)