Matthew Henry Quotes

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

Saying and doing are two things.

After a storm comes a calm.

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.

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

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

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

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

Not lost, but gone before.

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

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

To fish in troubled waters.

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.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

None so blind as those that will not see.