Quotes from Matthew Henry

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

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

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Not lost, but gone before.

ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.