Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“The scripture tells us not expressly what day of the year Christ rose (as Moses told the Israelites what day of the year they were brought out of Egypt, that they might remember it yearly), but very particularly what day of the week it was, plainly intimating that, as the more valuable deliverance, and of greater importance, it should be remembered weekly.”
― Matthew Henry ,
“The more dead we are to the delights of sense the better prepared we are for the pleasures of heaven.”
“Our Father. Intimating, that we must pray, not only alone and for ourselves, but with and for others; for we are members one of another, and are called into fellowship with each other.”
“The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity, and what we should be most solicitous about for ourselves and others.”
“All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;”
“It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his own institutions; we have to do with a God who is wise to prescribe his own worship, just to require what he has prescribed, and powerful to revenge what he has not prescribed.”
“Let it be our great concern to see on what terms we stand with our Bibles, whether they justify us or condemn us now; for the Judge of all will proceed by that rule.”
“Nor shall any partake of the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, or feast upon it, who are not first circumcised in heart, Col. 2:11.”
“He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear,”
“If God is jealous herein, we should be so, afraid of offering any worship to God otherwise than as he has appointed in his word.”
“Holy love knits the hearts of Christians one to another; and faith and love both contribute to our comfort.”
“Trouble will drive those to God who have said to him, “Go away”
“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?”
“Those who would be wise and knowing must make application to Christ.”
“We must first wait for God's law before we catch at his promises.”
“Conversion and sanctification are the renewing of the mind, a change not of the substance, but of the qualities of the soul.”
“Those that truly love God will make it their constant care and endeavour to keep his commandments, particularly those that relate to his worship. Those that love God, and keep those”
“And so great is the change the grace of God makes in the soul, that, as it follows, old things are passed away – old thoughts, old principles, and old practices, are passed away; and all these things must become new. Note, Regenerating grace creates a new world in the soul; all things are new. The renewed man acts from new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company.”
“Sin is the corruption or depravation of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption;”
“those that do so, and continue labouring in the word and doctrine, are to be accounted worthy of double honour, double to that of the Old-Testament priests.”
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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.