Matthew Henry Quotes - Page 8

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

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

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

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

All this and heaven too.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

Their own second and sober thoughts.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

To fish in troubled waters.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

The better day, the worse deed.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.