Matthew Henry Quotes

The better day, the worse deed.

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.

Our creature comforts

Not lost, but gone before.

None is so deaf as those that will not hear.

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

Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

They that die by famine die by inches.

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

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

To fish in troubled waters.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

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

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