Quotes from Matthew Henry

All this and heaven too.

Our creature comforts.

According to St. Paul women are not allowed to be public teachers in the church."

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.

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

We should take notice of that in others which is good, to their praise, that by so doing we may lay engagements upon them to abound therein more and more.

When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.

When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.

Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity of helping and saving.

The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way.

When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.

Though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet not from the command of it

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

All the disciples and followers of the Lord Jesus must be nonconformists to this world.

Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation;

such is the corruption of nature that the bad are much more likely to debauch the good than the good to reform the bad.

Jesus Christ in his person is God manifest in the flesh, he is light of light, the true Shechinah.

Marriage is not an invention of men, but a divine institution, and

All those who rejoice in the success of the church's enemies will share with them in their downfall; and those who have most indulged themselves in pride and pleasure are the least able to bear calamities; their sorrows will be as excessive as their pleasure and jollity were before.

God's time to help is when things are at the worst; and Providence verifies the paradox, The worse the better.

If the leprosy of sin have seized the head, if the judgment be corrupted, and wicked principles which countenance and support wicked practices, be embraced, it is an utter uncleanness, from which few are ever cleansed.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.