Top 200 Matthew Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.”

— Matthew Henry

202. “There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.”

— Matthew Henry

203. “The glory of God is his own end, and it should be ours in all that we do.”

— Matthew Henry

204. “Those that will not regard good ministers’ preaching cannot expect any benefit by their praying. If you will not hear us when we speak from God to you, God will not hear us when we speak to him for you.”

— Matthew Henry

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

— Matthew Henry

206. “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

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

— Matthew Henry

208. “We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.”

— Matthew Henry

209. “Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.”

— Matthew Henry

210. “Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.”

— Matthew Henry

211. “This silver was lost in the dirt; a soul plunged in the world, and overwhelmed with the love of it and care about it, is like a piece of money in the dirt; any one would say, It is a thousand pities that it should lie there.”

— Matthew Henry

212. “Their own second and sober thoughts.”

— Matthew Henry

213. “Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses.”

— Matthew Henry

214. “If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.”

— Matthew Henry

215. “What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing – it hides the word.”

— Matthew Henry

216. “All those who rejoice in the success of the church’s enemies will share with them in their downfall; and those who have most indulged themselves in pride and pleasure are the least able to bear calamities; their sorrows will be as excessive as their pleasure and jollity were before.”

— Matthew Henry

217. “A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.”

— Matthew Henry

218. “Those that abide in Christ as their heart’s desire shall have, through Christ, their heart’s desire.”

— Matthew Henry

219. “None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.”

— Matthew Henry

220. “He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.”

— Matthew Henry

221. “The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.”

— Matthew Henry

222. “Christ’s disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.”

— Matthew Henry

223. “The loser is here supposed to be a woman, who will more passionately grieve for her loss, and rejoice in finding what she had lost, than perhaps a man would do, and therefore it the better serves the purpose of the parable. She.”

— Matthew Henry

224. “The honour of being admitted into communion with God, and of being employed for him, does not exempt us from the duties of our relations and callings in this world.”

— Matthew Henry

225. “All the benefit of our religious services is lost if we do not improve them, and conduct ourselves aright afterwards.”

— Matthew Henry

226. “When God pardons sin he quite abolishes it, casts it behind his back.”

— Matthew Henry

227. “Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.”

— Matthew Henry

228. “If you take a book into your hands, be it ‘God’s book, or any other useful good book,’ rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God’s kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.”

— Matthew Henry

229. “Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.”

— Matthew Henry

230. “We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.”

— Matthew Henry

231. “The provisions of Christ’s gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.”

— Matthew Henry

232. “Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.”

— Matthew Henry

233. “They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.”

— Matthew Henry

234. “When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.”

— Matthew Henry

235. “The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.”

— Matthew Henry