Quotes from Matthew Henry

To fish in troubled waters.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Saying and doing are two things.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

After a storm comes a calm.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

All this and heaven too.

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Those that are above business.

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.