Top 200 Matthew Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Matthew Henry

102. “The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.”

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

104. “Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.”

— Matthew Henry

105. “Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.”

— Matthew Henry

106. “Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.”

— Matthew Henry

107. “The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.”

— Matthew Henry

108. “Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.”

— Matthew Henry

109. “Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.”

— Matthew Henry

110. “Those who complain most are most to be complained of.”

— Matthew Henry

111. “Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.”

— Matthew Henry

112. “Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.”

— Matthew Henry

113. “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

114. “They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.”

— Matthew Henry

115. “No man will say, “There is no God” ’till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.”

— Matthew Henry

116. “Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.”

— Matthew Henry

117. “There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.”

— Matthew Henry

118. “You have been asked to take notice of the sayings of dying men – this is mine: that a life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.”

— Matthew Henry

119. “He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.”

— Matthew Henry

120. “None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.”

— Matthew Henry

121. “Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.”

— Matthew Henry

122. “Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.”

— Matthew Henry

123. “Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.”

— Matthew Henry

124. “Note, The devil, though he is an enemy to all saints, is a conquered enemy. The Captain of our salvation has defeated and disarmed him; we have nothing to do but to pursue the victory.”

— Matthew Henry

125. “Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God’s holiness.”

— Matthew Henry

126. “Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.”

— Matthew Henry

127. “Our creature comforts.”

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128. “Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.”

— Matthew Henry

129. “God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.”

— Matthew Henry

130. “Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.”

— Matthew Henry

131. “It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.”

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

133. “Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.”

— Matthew Henry

134. “Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.”

— Matthew Henry

135. “Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.”

— Matthew Henry

136. “We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.”

— Matthew Henry

137. “The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.”

— Matthew Henry

138. “Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.”

— Matthew Henry

139. “The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ.”

— Matthew Henry

140. “It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.”

— Matthew Henry

141. “The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.”

— Matthew Henry

142. “No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.”

— Matthew Henry

143. “If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”

— Matthew Henry

144. “Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.”

— Matthew Henry

145. “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

146. “The first lesson in Christ’s school is self-denial.”

— Matthew Henry

147. “If the leprosy of sin have seized the head, if the judgment be corrupted, and wicked principles which countenance and support wicked practices, be embraced, it is an utter uncleanness, from which few are ever cleansed.”

— Matthew Henry

148. “Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.”

— Matthew Henry

149. “Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation;.”

— Matthew Henry

150. “If the blood of Christ be sprinkled upon our consciences, it will be our protection from the wrath of God, the curse of the law, and the damnation of hell, Rom. 8:1.”

— Matthew Henry