Top 200 Matthew Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.”

— Matthew Henry

102. “No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.”

— Matthew Henry

103. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

110. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

114. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

116. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

119. “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

120. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

122. “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

123. “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

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. “Our creature comforts.”

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

— Matthew Henry

127. “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

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

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

— Matthew Henry

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

138. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

144. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

148. “It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”

— Matthew Henry

149. “Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”

— Matthew Henry

150. “Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.”

— Matthew Henry