Top 200 Matthew Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”

— Matthew Henry

152. “Note, Those who go about to mock God do but deceive themselves. Hypocrisy in religion is the greatest folly as well as wickedness, since the God we have to do with can easily see through all our disguises, and will certainly deal with us hereafter, not according to our professions, but our practices.”

— Matthew Henry

153. “The remains of great and good men, like Elijah’s mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.”

— Matthew Henry

154. “It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.”

— Matthew Henry

155. “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

156. “It is a great happiness to be under the influence of the Holy Ghost.”

— Matthew Henry

157. “The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.”

— Matthew Henry

158. “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

159. “Jesus Christ in his person is God manifest in the flesh, he is light of light, the true Shechinah.”

— Matthew Henry

160. “Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be made; else they are not of a sweet savour to God.”

— Matthew Henry

161. “Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes.”

— Matthew Henry

162. “The workman made it, therefore it is not God. To represent an infinite Spirit by an image, and the great Creator by the image of a creature, is the greatest affront we can put upon God and the greatest cheat we can put upon ourselves. As.”

— Matthew Henry

163. “Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.”

— Matthew Henry

164. “Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.”

— Matthew Henry

165. “When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.”

— Matthew Henry

166. “A Christian makes his body a sacrifice to God, though he does not give it to be burned.”

— Matthew Henry

167. “Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.”

— Matthew Henry

168. “He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”

— Matthew Henry

169. “For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel:.”

— Matthew Henry

170. “Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.”

— Matthew Henry

171. “The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.”

— Matthew Henry

172. “Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.”

— Matthew Henry

173. “The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!”

— Matthew Henry

174. “The better day, the worse deed.”

— Matthew Henry

175. “Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.”

— Matthew Henry

176. “Christianity is the salt of the earth.”

— Matthew Henry

177. “Those that are above business.”

— Matthew Henry

178. “Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.”

— Matthew Henry

179. “Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.”

— Matthew Henry

180. “One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;.”

— Matthew Henry

181. “Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.”

— Matthew Henry

182. “It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.”

— Matthew Henry

183. “The wits or wills of men, their inventions or their injunctions, cannot make that to be sin which the law of God has not made to be so.”

— Matthew Henry

184. “What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?”

— Matthew Henry

185. “All the disciples and followers of the Lord Jesus must be nonconformists to this world.”

— Matthew Henry

186. “Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment, and particularly the contempt and neglect of the seals of the covenant;.”

— Matthew Henry

187. “We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.”

— Matthew Henry

188. “When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.”

— Matthew Henry

189. “Blushing is the colour of virtue.”

— Matthew Henry

190. “Skill in secular employments is God’s gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.”

— Matthew Henry

191. “Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?”

— Matthew Henry

192. “Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.”

— Matthew Henry

193. “The best use we can make of our worldly wealth is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity.”

— Matthew Henry

194. “Thus have they committed two great evils, in which they persist, and from which they hate to be reformed; they take away from God’s word, and add to his worship.”

— Matthew Henry

195. “Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.”

— Matthew Henry

196. “As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.”

— Matthew Henry

197. “All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.”

— Matthew Henry

198. “Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”

— Matthew Henry

199. “A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.”

— Matthew Henry

200. “That creature which we idolize God justly removes from us, or embitters to us.”

— Matthew Henry