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Christian Quotes by Matthew Henry Index
August 27, 2001
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.
Matthew Henry
Biography
February 13, 2003
What think we of Christ? Is He altogether glorious in our eyes, and precious to our hearts? 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
May 15, 2003
Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.
Matthew Henry
June 5, 2004
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
Matthew Henry
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry
December 29, 2004
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 word, honour our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.
Matthew Henry
March 22, 2005
Christ died He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better - His PEACE!
Matthew Henry
January 5, 2006
While we are zealous for good works, let us be careful not to put them in the place of Christ's righteousness, and not to advance anything which may betray others into so dreadful a delusion.
Matthew Henry
April 28, 2006
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
Matthew Henry
August 2, 2007
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Matthew Henry
September 1, 2007
Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.
Matthew Henry
May 11, 2008
(On the night he was robbed:) I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, 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
May 27, 2008
An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed; knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.
Matthew Henry
March 13, 2009
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
August 15, 2009
You may as soon find a living man without breath as living saint without prayer.
Matthew Henry
August 30, 2009
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry
December 17, 2009
We cannot expect too little from man, nor too much from God.
Matthew Henry
Biography Resources
March 20, 2011
Impenitent, unhumbled hearts are.. not reclaimed by God's rebukes because they think themselves wronged by them. Evidence of our hardness is that we are more concerned about our sufferings than our sins.
Matthew Henry
Biography Resources
August 13, 2011
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.
Matthew Henry
Biography Resources
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