Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“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.”
“There is in every wilful sin an interpretative contempt of the goodness of God; it is spurning at his bowels, particularly the goodness of his patience, his forbearance and long-suffering,”
“Learning will not alter men's natural tempers, nor cure them of their sinful distempers; nor will it change the constitution of things in this world; a vale of tears it is and so it will be when all is done.”
“is a great vexation to the spirits of good ministers to see people deaf to all the fair warnings given them, and running headlong upon ruin, notwithstanding all the kind methods taken to prevent it.”
“All the enemies of Christ shall be made his footstool, either by humble submission and entire subjection to his will casting themselves down at his feet, or by utter destruction;”
“I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee,”
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“Christ is the author of salvation to those only that obey him.”
“The perfecting of God's mercies to us must be waited for in a humble observance of his institutions.”
“It must be the strong affection of the youth, and the espousals, that will carry us on to follow God in a wilderness, with an implicit faith and an entire resignation; and it is a pity that those who have so followed him should ever leave him.”
“God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.”
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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.