Quotes from Matthew Henry

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

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.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

God warns before he wounds.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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

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

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.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

God's favour is happiness.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

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