Matthew Henry Quotes

Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped. More souls are ruined by pride than by any other sin whatever.

None so blind as those that will not see.

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

Judas had given them the slip.

After a storm comes a calm.

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

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

To their own second thoughts.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it.

The better day, the worse deed.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.

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.

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.

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.