Quotes from Matthew Henry

Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.

Whom God helps he helps right early, Ps. xlvi.

Clear heads and stout hearts make good judges.

Men despise that which is broken, but God will not. He despised the sacrifice of torn and broken beasts, but he will not despise that of a torn and broken heart. He will not overlook it; he will not refuse or reject it; though it make God no satisfaction for the wrong done him by sin, yet he does not despise it.

but the blood of Christ thoroughly cleanses from all sin, and after it there needs no cleansing.

That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected , and near his heart to be beloved.

We must not abruptly quit our callings because we have not the success in them we desire.

As those who live and die unsanctified go out of the world with their hell about them, so those who are sanctified and renewed go out of the world with their heaven about them.

Those that are enemies to God's church are enemies to themselves, and, sooner or later, they will be made to see it.

Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.

God will own his own people, though ever so poor and despicable, and will find a time to plead their cause.

is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.

2.) A severe penalty: The Lord will not hold him guiltless; magistrates, who punish other offences, may not think themselves concerned to take notice of this, because it does not immediately offer injury either to private property or the public peace; but God, who is jealous for his honour, will not thus connive at it.

All that are to be employed for God are to be sanctified to him.

The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Nature is content with a little and that which is most natural, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew 1:8-15

Every thing we honour the holy God with must be pure and carefully kept from all pollution.

Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir up thy passion. See that thou approve thyself to God and thine own conscience, and then heed not what men say of thee; it is easier to pass by twenty affronts than to avenge one. When any harm is done to us, examine whether we have not done as bad to others.

29  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the centre of them.

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?

Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.

It is better to live poorly on the fruits of God's goodness, than live plentifully on the products of our own sin.

The calamities of the righteous are preparing them for their future blessedness, and the wicked, while their days are prolonged, are but ripening for ruin. There is a judgment to come, which will rectify this seeming irregularity, to the glory of God and the full satisfaction of all his people, and we must wait with patience till then.

Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.