Quotes from Matthew Henry

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

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

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.

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.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.