Matthew Henry Quotes

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

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

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

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

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

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

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

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

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

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.

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.

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

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

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

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

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

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

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

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.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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.

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

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

The better day, the worse deed.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

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

God's favour is happiness.

Saying and doing are two things.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

To fish in troubled waters.

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

God warns before he wounds.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.