Quotes About Matthew Henry

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

God, and she was changed. As commentator Matthew Henry eloquently described this scene, "Those who, through grace, are brought to experience the delights of communion with God will say that the one-half was not told them of the pleasures of Wisdom's ways."26

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

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

The wits or wills of men, their inventions or their injunctions, cannot make that to be sin which the law of God has not made to be so.

God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.

Skill in secular employments is God's gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.

See the reasons of free grace; we are not beloved for our own sakes, but for his sake who is the great trustee of the covenant.

It is better to have one fountain that a thousand cisterns, one all-sufficient God than a thousand insufficient ones.

It is well for us that our salvation doth not depend upon our being able to solve all these difficulties, nor is the divine authority of the gospels at all weakened by them; for the evangelists are not supposed to write these genealogies either of their own knowledge or by divine inspiration

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.

Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our comfort in him

Christ will fold up this world as a garment not to be abused any longer, not to be any longer so used as it has been.

The law only shows us our disease; the gospel shows us our help in Christ.

Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our neighbour and ourselves.

No good can be expected from a righteous and holy God to sinful creatures, but by his mediation.

The Lord is for the body, and it is not only folly, but sin against God, to prejudice our health for the pleasing of our appetite.