Matthew Henry Quotes

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

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

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.

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

God's favour is happiness.

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.

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but, waiting on the Lord, out of weakness we shall be made strong. Having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to press forward and lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

All this and heaven too.

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.

A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

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

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

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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

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.