Matthew Henry Quotes

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.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

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

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.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

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

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

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.

Their own second and sober thoughts.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Those that are above business.

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.

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

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

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

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

We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.

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

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.