Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“None talk more absurdly than murmurers.”
“In all our dealings with God, free grace anticipates us with the blessings of goodness, and all our comfort is owing, not to our knowing God, but rather to our being known of him,”
“We must first see the righteousness of God condemning, and then the righteousness of God justifying will appear worthy of all acceptation.”
“No delights can be agreeable nor satisfying to a soul but those that God himself has provided and appointed for it; no true paradise, but of God’s planting. The light of our own fires, and the sparks of our own kindling, will soon leave us in the dark,”
― Matthew Henry ,
“Christ and his resurrection, who is the true treasure hidden in the field of the Old Testament.”
“Acceptance with God is the great thing we should desire and aim at in all our religious services, particularly in the Lord's supper, which is our eating of the sin-offering.”
“God is the first and best, and therefore must have the first and best.”
“Duty is ours, events are God's; and we do not trust God, but tempt him, when we say, "We put ourselves under his protection," and do not use proper means, such as are within our power, for our own preservation.”
“What God's ministers say to us is then likely to do us good when the glory of God shines in with it upon our souls.”
“Sin is the death of the soul.”
“Those that multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for, whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough.”
“The children of disobedience are such as choose to disobey God, and to serve the devil;”
“He concealed his own misery, that he might draw them into the like: thus he still deceives sinners into their own ruin.”
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“And let our make and place, as men, remind us of our duty as Christians, which is always to keep heaven in our eye and the earth under our feet.”
“The carnal mind makes a man a perfect slave to his vicious appetite.”
“Y esto podemos decir sin temor a equivocarnos: que aquel por quien Dios hizo los mundos, no solo el gran mundo, sino el pequeño mundo del hombre, formó el cuerpo humano al principio según el modelo que diseñó para sí mismo en la plenitud del tiempo.”
― Matthew Henry ,
from Génesis
“We may be in the way of our duty, and yet may meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into for the trial of our faith, and that God may be glorified in our relief.”
“Those whom God designs for preferment he clothes with humility; the most”
“Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there be any true peace on this side heaven, it is they that enjoy it in those retirements. This makes death desirable to a child of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world to perfect and everlasting rest.”
“Whatever is unclean should be to us an abomination; touch not the unclean thing.”
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Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-1710) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament. After the author's death, the work was finished by a number of ministers, and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811. Not a work of textual criticism, its attempt at good sense, discrimination, its high moral tone and simple piety with practical application, combined with the well-sustained flow of its English style, made it one of the most popular works of its type. Matthew Henry's six volume Complete Commentary, originally published in 1706, provides an exhaustive verse by verse study of the Bible. His commentaries are still in use to this day.