Matthew Henry Quotes

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

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

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

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

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Our creature comforts

All this and heaven too.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Not lost, but gone before.

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

The service of sin is perfect slavery.

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

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

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

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

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

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.

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

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

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

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.

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.

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

Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

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

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

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

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.