Matthew Henry Quotes
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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.
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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
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Judas had given them the slip.
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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
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To their own second thoughts.
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Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour.
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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
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Saying and doing are two things.
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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
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Blushing is the colour of virtue.
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Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
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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.
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
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Not lost, but gone before.
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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
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An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Our creature comforts
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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
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Better late than never.
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The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
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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.