Quotes from Matthew Henry

One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.

If the blood of Christ be sprinkled upon our consciences, it will be our protection from the wrath of God, the curse of the law, and the damnation of hell, Rom. 8:1.

Bendito sea Dios por ese libro que nos muestra nuestro remedio, al igual que este abre nuestra herida. Señor, ¡abre nuestros ojos y miraremos las maravillas de tu ley y de tu evangelio! (Sal. 119:18).

All the benefit of our religious services is lost if we do not improve them, and conduct ourselves aright afterwards.

Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others.

Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.

Hell is destruction from the presence of the Lord, Th2 1:9. It is a perpetual banishment from the fountain of all good. This is the choice of sinners; and so shall their doom be, to their eternal confusion.

Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not of works, lest any man should boast. These things are not brought to pass by any thing done by us, therefore all boasting is shut out. All is the free gift of God, and the effect of being quickened by his power. It was his purpose, to which he prepared us, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and his Holy Spirit producing such a change in us, that we should glorify God by our good conversation, and perseverance in holiness.

A Christian makes his body a sacrifice to God, though he does not give it to be burned.

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.

so bad a thing is it to invade God's property, and so cautious should we be to abstain from all appearances of this evil.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

The honour of being admitted into communion with God, and of being employed for him, does not exempt us from the duties of our relations and callings in this world.

All Christians must be saints; and, if they come not under that character on earth, they will never be saints in glory.

The loser is here supposed to be a woman, who will more passionately grieve for her loss, and rejoice in finding what she had lost, than perhaps a man would do, and therefore it the better serves the purpose of the parable. She

Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

God's servants must think nothing below them but sin.

Those that will not regard good ministers' preaching cannot expect any benefit by their praying. If you will not hear us when we speak from God to you, God will not hear us when we speak to him for you.

This silver was lost in the dirt; a soul plunged in the world, and overwhelmed with the love of it and care about it, is like a piece of money in the dirt; any one would say, It is a thousand pities that it should lie there.

The best use we can make of our worldly wealth is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity.

Christianity is the salt of the earth.

Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be made; else they are not of a sweet savour to God.

God will delight to show them mercy, will reckon their conversion a return for all the expense he has been at upon them. There is always joy in heaven. God rejoiceth in all his works, but particularly in the works of his grace. He rejoiceth to do good to penitent sinners, with his whole heart and his whole soul. He rejoiceth not only in the conversion of churches and nations, but even over one sinner that repenteth, though but one.