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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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
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Judas had given them the slip.
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To their own second thoughts.
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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
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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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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
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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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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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Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
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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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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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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
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Better late than never.
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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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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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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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No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.