Matthew Henry Quotes

Matthew Henry offers plain-spoken, moral guidance that soothes and challenges readers on virtue and emotion.

33 quotes

1. The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.

2. Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.

3. Our creature comforts

4. None is so deaf as those that will not hear.

5. Blushing is the colour of virtue.

6. Better late than never.

7. Judas had given them the slip.

8. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

9. Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

13. Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

14. In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him… As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.

15. Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!

16. We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

17. They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

18. Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

19. Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

20. It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

21. Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

22. Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

23. With God, saying and doing are not two things as they are with men. God will do what He has said.

24. Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.

25. 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.

26. There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

27. 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.

28. Saying and doing are two things.

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

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

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

32. When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

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