Matthew Henry famous quotes

Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.
-- Matthew Henry

#Jesus #Fall #Heart

After a storm comes a calm.
-- Matthew Henry

#Motivational #Peace #Inspirational Life

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
-- Matthew Henry

#Inspirational #Marriage #Taken

Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!
-- Matthew Henry

#Mother #Easter #Father

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
-- Matthew Henry

#Peace #Jewels #Giving

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
-- Matthew Henry

#Heart #Hands #World

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
-- Matthew Henry

#Riches #Wealth

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.
-- Matthew Henry

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Promise

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
-- Matthew Henry

#Spirituality #Live By

Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.
-- Matthew Henry

#Mean #Honor #Doe

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.
-- Matthew Henry

#Worship #Enough

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Practice #May

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.
-- Matthew Henry

#Heart #Charity #Christianity

Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind.
-- Matthew Henry

#Grace #Favors #Goodness

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.
-- Matthew Henry

#Enemy #Church #Dangerous

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.
-- Matthew Henry

#Joy #May #Christ

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
-- Matthew Henry

#Greatness #Goodness #Valuable

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.
-- Matthew Henry

#Enemy #Your Best Friend #Worst

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.
-- Matthew Henry

#World #Followers #Christ

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.
-- Matthew Henry

#Men #Holiness

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
-- Matthew Henry

#Punishment #Grace #Trials

If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts ... A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you.
-- Matthew Henry

#Children #Home #House

Saying and doing are two things.
-- Matthew Henry

#Two

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
-- Matthew Henry

#Bible #Christian #Heart

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?
-- Matthew Henry

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
-- Matthew Henry

#Omnipotence #Temptation #Might

The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.
-- Matthew Henry

#Christian #Truth Is #Behavior

Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.
-- Matthew Henry

#Grace #Sorrow #Tears

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
-- Matthew Henry

#Atheist #Men #Sin

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.
-- Matthew Henry

#Heart #Soul

What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
-- Matthew Henry

#Gratitude #Blessing #Work Out

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Helping #Mercy

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
-- Matthew Henry

#Journey #Talking #Hiking

You have been asked to take notice of the sayings of dying men—this is mine: that a life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
-- Matthew Henry

#Men #Dying #World

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Letters

By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
-- Matthew Henry

#Law #Light #Emmanuel

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Giving #Honor

None so blind as those who will not see.
-- Matthew Henry

#Vegan #Blind

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
-- Matthew Henry

#Hands #Doctrine #Teach

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
-- Matthew Henry

#Joy #Reverence #Word Of God

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.
-- Matthew Henry

#Christian #Firsts #Gods Will

A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.
-- Matthew Henry

#Humble #Heart #Men

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.
-- Matthew Henry

#Jewels #World #Life Is

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
-- Matthew Henry

#Complaining

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.
-- Matthew Henry

#Faith #Adherence #Enjoy

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Trouble

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
-- Matthew Henry

#Humility #Pride #Practice

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
-- Matthew Henry

#Umpires #Holiness #Attributes

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.
-- Matthew Henry

#People #Firsts #Praying

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.
-- Matthew Henry

#Christian #Prayer #Men

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.
-- Matthew Henry

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Lasts

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Meals

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
-- Matthew Henry

#Practice #Vain

Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
-- Matthew Henry

#Pain #Men #Fields

The service of sin is perfect slavery.
-- Matthew Henry

#Perfect #Slavery #Sin

Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.
-- Matthew Henry

#Humble #Expectations #House

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.
-- Matthew Henry

#Spring #Sorrow #Tears

The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.
-- Matthew Henry

#Mean #Heart #World

Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.
-- Matthew Henry

#Song #Pain #Healing

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
-- Matthew Henry

#Scripture #Praying #Wells

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.
-- Matthew Henry

#Jesus #Temples #Christ

None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.
-- Matthew Henry

#Election #Conformity #Christ

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.
-- Matthew Henry

#Thinking #People #Desire

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
-- Matthew Henry

#Peace #Church #Way

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
-- Matthew Henry

#Church #Common #Boast

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.
-- Matthew Henry

#Fashion #Religious #Strong

ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.
-- Matthew Henry

#Gratitude

Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.
-- Matthew Henry

#Religious #Men #Understanding

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.
-- Matthew Henry

#Men #Long #Delight

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.
-- Matthew Henry

#Heaven #Grace #Soul

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.
-- Matthew Henry

#Ends #Wells

Our creature comforts
-- Matthew Henry

#Comfort #Creatures #Creature Comforts

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.
-- Matthew Henry

#Heaven #Ease #Kingdoms

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.
-- Matthew Henry

#Oil #Joy #Wheels

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.
-- Matthew Henry

#Dark #May #Events

To fish in troubled waters.
-- Matthew Henry

#Fishing #Water #Fishes

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
-- Matthew Henry

#Book #Long #Way

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
-- Matthew Henry

#Men #Way #Waste

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.
-- Matthew Henry

#Thinking #Long #World

When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.
-- Matthew Henry

#Mother #Peace #Father

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
-- Matthew Henry

#Color #Meditation #Garments

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.
-- Matthew Henry

#Meditation #Hearing #Sowing

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
-- Matthew Henry

#Guilt #May #Littles

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Said

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
-- Matthew Henry

#Men #Design #Meek

Blushing is the colour of virtue.
-- Matthew Henry

#Virtue #Blushing #Colour

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.
-- Matthew Henry

#Beautiful #Flower #Sun

It is better to take time to consider, than find time to repent.
-- Matthew Henry

#Repent #Take Time

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.
-- Matthew Henry

#Men #Design #Good Man

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.
-- Matthew Henry

#Advice #Worst #Hoping For The Best

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.
-- Matthew Henry

#Beautiful #Together #Harmony

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.
-- Matthew Henry

#Done #Firsts #Affection

All this and heaven too.
-- Matthew Henry

#Heaven

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.
-- Matthew Henry

#Bible #Despair #Thieves

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Giving #People

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.
-- Matthew Henry

#Prayer #Giving #Answers

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.
-- Matthew Henry

#Heart #Broken #Bones

None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.
-- Matthew Henry

#Christ #Empty

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.
-- Matthew Henry

#Lord #Candle #Conscience

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
-- Matthew Henry

#Men #Fire #Gone