Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“Christ must be sought, and will be found, in the congregations of his people and in the administration of his ordinances;”
“Tears of tenderness and affection are no disparagement at all, even to great and wise men.”
“None was more quarrelled with by men, than he that came to take up the great quarrel between God and man.”
“Nor is there any surer indication of the badness of a man's spiritual state than the heart's rising in self-conceit, confidence in the flesh, and resistance of the reproofs of the word and strivings of the Spirit.”
“Christians must not forbear speaking the truth, for fear of offending others. The false teachers who drew the Galatians from the truth of the gospel were designing men. They pretended affection, but they were not sincere and upright. An excellent rule is given. It is good to be zealous always in a good thing; not for a time only, or now and then, but always. Happy would it be for the church of Christ, if this zeal was better maintained.”
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“Those that would find mercy with men must seek it of God, who has all hearts in his hands, and turns them as he pleases.”
“There were always those among the Israelites that were not Israelites, and there are still hypocrites in the church, who make a deal of mischief, but will be shaken off at last.”
“drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children.”
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“Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.”
“Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.”
“Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir up thy passion. See that thou approve thyself to God and thine own conscience, and then heed not what men say of thee; it is easier to pass by twenty affronts than to avenge one. When any harm is done to us, examine whether we have not done as bad to others.”
“All that are to be employed for God are to be sanctified to him.”
“is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.”
“Those that are enemies to God's church are enemies to themselves, and, sooner or later, they will be made to see it.”
“That 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.”
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“Men despise that which is broken, but God will not. He despised the sacrifice of torn and broken beasts, but he will not despise that of a torn and broken heart. He will not overlook it; he will not refuse or reject it; though it make God no satisfaction for the wrong done him by sin, yet he does not despise it.”
“Whom God helps he helps right early, Ps. xlvi.”
“We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;”
“God's word will stand, and we shall get nothing by disputing it, or delaying to submit to it.”
“That which ministers have received of the Lord they must deliver to his people, and keep back nothing that is profitable.”
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Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-1710) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament. After the author's death, the work was finished by a number of ministers, and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811. Not a work of textual criticism, its attempt at good sense, discrimination, its high moral tone and simple piety with practical application, combined with the well-sustained flow of its English style, made it one of the most popular works of its type. Matthew Henry's six volume Complete Commentary, originally published in 1706, provides an exhaustive verse by verse study of the Bible. His commentaries are still in use to this day.