The Kayelton Group

Those whom God justifies, he also glorifies; and because Christ lives, blessed be God! We shall live also.  Nevertheless, the strongest believer has as much need to come to Christ every day for fresh strength, as if he had never believed before; and if he were to depend on his own faithfulness, and not on the faithfulness of the Son of God, he would soon desert the Lord Jesus Christ.”  (Mason, 1719-1791)

“That one particular man should represent all the elect in himself, and that the most righteous should die as a sinner, yea, as a sinner by the hand of a just and holy God is a mystery of the greatest depth!”  (John Bunyan, 1628-1688)

“When God acquits a sinner, He does so on the ground of a righteousness that He gives to the sinner.”  (Clark; 1859-1936)

“The sinner is not accepted as if he were righteous, but because in Christ Jesus he is so.” (Robert Haldane, 1772-1854)

“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)

“From start to finish, therefore, right standing with God is God’s gift.  It is appropriated by God-given faith.  To God therefore belongs all the glory.  For human boasting, there is no room whatever.”  (William Hendriksen, 1900-1982)

“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, 1878-1975)

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

“Justification is a declaration by God that He is now acquitting that person, and that He is going to put on Him the righteousness of Christ and regard him as righteous.” (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899-1981)

“Election and salvation by grace are as inseparable as the Holy Trinity.”   (Conrad Murrell)