Matthew Henry Quotes

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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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Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

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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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Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

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A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

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By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.

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When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.

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

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

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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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Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

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

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

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The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

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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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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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The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

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

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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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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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None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

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I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

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

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

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If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts... A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you.

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

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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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