Matthew Henry Quotes

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

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

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

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

Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.

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

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.

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

They that die by famine die by inches.

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.

ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

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

After a storm comes a calm.

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

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

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

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.

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

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

Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him.... As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

None so blind as those who will not see.

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

Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!

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

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