Matthew Henry Quotes

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

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

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

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

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

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

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

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

After a storm comes a calm.

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.

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.

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

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.

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

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.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

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.

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

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

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

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

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

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.

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

They that die by famine die by inches.

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

ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.

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

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.

None so blind as those who will not see.

That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.

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

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

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

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

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

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.

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

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

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

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

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

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.