Matthew Henry Quotes

#1. Their own second and sober thoughts.

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#2. Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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#3. The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

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#4. The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

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#5. Tears of tenderness and affection are no disparagement at all, even to great and wise men.

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#6. Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment, and particularly the contempt and neglect of the seals of the covenant;

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#7. Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our comfort in him,

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#8. God warns before he wounds.

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#9. Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

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#10. Those whom God pardons must be made to know what their sin deserved, and how miserable they would have been if they had been unpardoned, that God's mercy may be the more magnified.

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#11. Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

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#12. We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

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#13. No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.

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#14. Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

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#15. Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.

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#16. The saints, who are living sacrifices to God, must have salt in themselves, for every sacrifice must be salted with salt (Mark 9:49,

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#17. God can bring his people through the greatest difficulties, and force a way where he does not find it.

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#18. Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

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#19. He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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#20. Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

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#21. All this and heaven too.

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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

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#25. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

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#26. It is necessary to mankind in general, that there should be religion in the world, absolutely necessary for the preservation of the honour of the human nature, and no less so for the preservation of the order of human societies.

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#27. As time will not wear out the guilt of sin, so it will not blot out the records of conscience;

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#28. The workman made it, therefore it is not God. To represent an infinite Spirit by an image, and the great Creator by the image of a creature, is the greatest affront we can put upon God and the greatest cheat we can put upon ourselves. As

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#29. those that have received Christ must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain.

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#30. Saying and doing are two things.

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

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#32. Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

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#33. Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

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#34. The liberty of God's people is a heavy grievance to their enemies, Esth. 5:12, 13; Acts 5:17, 33.

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#35. Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

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#36. Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

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#37. Man's extremity is God's opportunity of helping and saving.

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#38. To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him.

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#39. God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.

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

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#41. 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.

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

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#44. Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

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#45. 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.

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#46. Those that are above business.

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#47. The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.

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

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#49. They that die by famine die by inches.

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#50. 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.

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#51. Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.

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#52. when God pleads his people's cause he can deal with giants as with grasshoppers. No

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#53. The service of sin is perfect slavery.

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#54. Blushing is the colour of virtue.

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#55. Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

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#56. 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.

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

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#58. 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.

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#59. The undutiful behaviour of children towards their parents is a very great provocation to God our common Father; and, if men do not punish it, he will.

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

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#61. To fish in troubled waters.

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#62. That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.

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#63. They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

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#64. God's favour is happiness.

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

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#66. We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

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#67. The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

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#68. 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.

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#69. When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.

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

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

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#72. Though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet not from the command of it,

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#73. Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The

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#74. Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

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#75. None talk more absurdly than murmurers.

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#76. For us to err, with the Bible in our hands, is the effect of pride, sloth, and carelessness.

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#77. The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

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

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#79. What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed by Providence, that they may be ripened for destruction.

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#80. It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

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#81. 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.

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

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#83. We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

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#84. it is a great mercy to be reclaimed and called home when we go astray, though it be by a tempest.

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#85. The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

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#86. It is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, Be ye holy, for I am holy; but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, He who exalts himself shall be abased.

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#87. It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes,

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#88. for those that would be kept from any sin must be careful to avoid all temptations to it, and every thing that looks towards it or leads to it.

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#89. It is Christ living in the soul by faith that makes the body a living sacrifice,

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

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

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

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

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#94. It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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#95. Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

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

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#97. The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.

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#98. Those that in good earnest set their faces heaven-ward, and will live godly in Christ Jesus, must expect to be set upon by Satan's temptations and terrors.

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#99. 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.

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#100. When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.

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