Matthew Henry Quotes - Page 3

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

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When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

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You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

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

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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

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

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

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

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The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

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Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

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The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

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Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

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

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All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

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I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

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The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

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Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

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The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

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

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

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To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

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

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The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

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

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

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May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

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Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

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If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

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We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

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Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

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The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

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Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

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

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Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

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

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

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Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

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When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

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Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

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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.

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Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

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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.

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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.