Top 200 Matthew Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.”

— Matthew Henry

52. “Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.”

— Matthew Henry

53. “Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.”

— Matthew Henry

54. “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.”

— Matthew Henry

55. “To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.”

— Matthew Henry

56. “We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.”

— Matthew Henry

57. “We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.”

— Matthew Henry

58. “It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”

— Matthew Henry

59. “It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.”

— Matthew Henry

60. “Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God’s mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.”

— Matthew Henry

61. “You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.”

— Matthew Henry

62. “May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.”

— Matthew Henry

63. “Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.”

— Matthew Henry

64. “It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.”

— Matthew Henry

65. “The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.”

— Matthew Henry

66. “No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.”

— Matthew Henry

67. “The service of sin is perfect slavery.”

— Matthew Henry

68. “None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.”

— Matthew Henry

69. “It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.”

— Matthew Henry

70. “It is better to take time to consider, than find time to repent.”

— Matthew Henry

71. “The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.”

— Matthew Henry

72. “We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.”

— Matthew Henry

73. “Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.”

— Matthew Henry

74. “Marriage is not an invention of men, but a divine institution, and.”

— Matthew Henry

75. “Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.”

— Matthew Henry

76. “Not lost, but gone before.”

— Matthew Henry

77. “Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.”

— Matthew Henry

78. “Saying and doing are two things.”

— Matthew Henry

79. “Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.”

— Matthew Henry

80. “Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.”

— Matthew Henry

81. “We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God’s all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.”

— Matthew Henry

82. “Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.”

— Matthew Henry

83. “Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.”

— Matthew Henry

84. “Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.”

— Matthew Henry

85. “Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.”

— Matthew Henry

86. “They that die by famine die by inches.”

— Matthew Henry

87. “None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.”

— Matthew Henry

88. “Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.”

— Matthew Henry

89. “What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.”

— Matthew Henry

90. “The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way.”

— Matthew Henry

91. “God warns before he wounds.”

— Matthew Henry

92. “To fish in troubled waters.”

— Matthew Henry

93. “That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.”

— Matthew Henry

94. “All Christians must be saints; and, if they come not under that character on earth, they will never be saints in glory.”

— Matthew Henry

95. “Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.”

— Matthew Henry

96. “The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.”

— Matthew Henry

97. “None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.”

— Matthew Henry

98. “Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.”

— Matthew Henry

99. “The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.”

— Matthew Henry

100. “Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.”

— Matthew Henry