Quotes from Matthew Henry

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

None talk more absurdly than murmurers.

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

In all our dealings with God, free grace anticipates us with the blessings of goodness, and all our comfort is owing, not to our knowing God, but rather to our being known of him

We must first see the righteousness of God condemning, and then the righteousness of God justifying will appear worthy of all acceptation.

No delights can be agreeable nor satisfying to a soul but those that God himself has provided and appointed for it; no true paradise, but of God's planting. The light of our own fires, and the sparks of our own kindling, will soon leave us in the dark

Christ and his resurrection, who is the true treasure hidden in the field of the Old Testament.

Acceptance with God is the great thing we should desire and aim at in all our religious services, particularly in the Lord's supper, which is our eating of the sin-offering.

God is the first and best, and therefore must have the first and best.

What God's ministers say to us is then likely to do us good when the glory of God shines in with it upon our souls.

Sin is the death of the soul.

In Christ there are no dead and sapless branches, faith is not an idle grace; wherever it is, it brings forth fruit in works.

Those that multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for, whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough.

The children of disobedience are such as choose to disobey God, and to serve the devil;

He concealed his own misery, that he might draw them into the like: thus he still deceives sinners into their own ruin.

And let our make and place, as men, remind us of our duty as Christians, which is always to keep heaven in our eye and the earth under our feet.

The carnal mind makes a man a perfect slave to his vicious appetite.

Y esto podemos decir sin temor a equivocarnos: que aquel por quien Dios hizo los mundos, no solo el gran mundo, sino el pequeño mundo del hombre, formó el cuerpo humano al principio según el modelo que diseñó para sí mismo en la plenitud del tiempo.

We may be in the way of our duty, and yet may meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into for the trial of our faith, and that God may be glorified in our relief.

Those whom God designs for preferment he clothes with humility; the most

Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there be any true peace on this side heaven, it is they that enjoy it in those retirements. This makes death desirable to a child of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world to perfect and everlasting rest.

Whatever is unclean should be to us an abomination; touch not the unclean thing.

Weapons formed against God's Israel cannot prosper long, and shall be broken at last.

True penitents say to their idols, "Get you hence; what have we to do any more with idols?