Matthew Henry Quotes - Page 4

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

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

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.

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

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

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

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.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

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

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

The service of sin is perfect slavery.

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

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.

God's favour is happiness.

God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. We wrong God, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. God honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours God if he makes him after the likeness of his body. The Godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

Saying and doing are two things.