Top 100 Matthew Henry Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Matthew Henry

#1. If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.

C.J. Mahaney

#2. Matthew Henry wrote, "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."2

Tullian Tchividjian

#3. Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."5

Jerry Bridges

#4. When I cannot feel the faith of assurance, I live by the fact of God's faithfulness. Matthew Henry

Lettie B. Cowman

#5. It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

Francis Chan

#6. Their own second and sober thoughts.

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#7. 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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#8. Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

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#9. The observance of the laws of Christ cannot be less necessary than the observance of the laws of Moses was.

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#10. The better day, the worse deed.

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

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#12. It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;

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#13. Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother, for, though it be hidden from man, it will be found that God is the avenger of all such.

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#14. 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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#15. If the leprosy of sin have seized the head, if the judgment be corrupted, and wicked principles which countenance and support wicked practices, be embraced, it is an utter uncleanness, from which few are ever cleansed.

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#16. When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

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

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

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

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

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#21. 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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#22. JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

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#23. Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

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

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#25. God warns before he wounds.

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#26. Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of.

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#27. Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.

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

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

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#30. Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

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

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#32. Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

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#33. 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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#34. Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.

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#35. It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.

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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.

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

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

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#48. That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

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#49. 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.

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#50. To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

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

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

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#53. 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.

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#54. Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

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#55. It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness,

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#56. The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ.

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#57. Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.

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

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

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#60. Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

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#61. 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.

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#62. All this and heaven too.

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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

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

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#67. 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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#68. The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Matt. 4:4.

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

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#70. 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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#71. Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.

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

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#74. It is better to take time to consider, than find time to repent.

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

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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear,

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#79. There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.

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

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#81. We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

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

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#83. Saying and doing are two things.

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

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#85. God's time to help is when things are at the worst; and Providence verifies the paradox, The worse the better.

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

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

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

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#89. ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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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#92. Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.

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