Matthew Henry - God Quotes

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No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

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If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

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The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

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

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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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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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Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

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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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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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When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

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

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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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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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We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

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

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Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

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It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

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The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

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

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Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

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Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

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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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For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel:

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

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

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

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