Matthew Henry Quotes - Page 3

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

God warns before he wounds.

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

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

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.

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.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

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

Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.

What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

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.

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

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.

None so blind as those who will not see.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

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

When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.