Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry

“To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.”

“Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.”

“We must not abruptly quit our callings because we have not the success in them we desire.”

“Those who have a saving interest in Christ must be willing to part with all for Him, leave all to follow Him. Whatever stands in opposition to Christ, or in completion with Him for our love and service, we must cheerfully quit it, though ever so dear to us.”

“We must be the sons of God both by adoption and regeneration, before we can be”

“The blessing of Christ will make a little go a great way.”

“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.”

“Inordinate desires commonly produce irregular endeavors. If our wishes be not kept in submission to God's providence, our pursuits will scarcely be kept under the restraints of his precepts.”

“We may be sure of this, and we must pray in the assurance of it, in a full assurance of his faith, that wherever God finds a praying heart, he will be found a prayer-hearing God; though the voice of prayer be a low voice, a weak voice, yet if it come from an upright heart, it is a voice that God will hear, that he will hear with pleasure, it is his delight, and hay he will return a gracious answer to; he hath heard thy prayers, he hath seen thy tears. When therefore we stand praying, this ground we must stand upon, this principle we must stand to, nothing doubting, nothing wavering, that whatever we ask of God as a father, in the name of Jesus Christ the Mediator, according to the will of God revealed in the Scripture, it shall be granted us either in kind or kindness; so the promise is, John 16:23, and the truth of it is sealed to by the concurring experience of the saints in all ages, ever since men began to call upon the name of the Lord, that Jacob's God never yet said to Jacob's seed, seek he me in vain, and he will not begin now. When we come to God by prayer, if we come aright we may be confident of this, that notwithstanding the distance between heaven and earth, and our great unworthiness to have any notice taken of us, or any favour showed us; yet God doth hear our voice, and will not turn away our prayers or his mercy.”

“The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.”

“The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.”

“None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.”

“Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.”

“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.”

“Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.”

“If men's religion prevails not to conquer and cure the wickedness of their hearts, it shall not always serve for a cloak. The day is coming when hypocrites will be stripped of their fig-leaves.”

“Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.”

“When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.”

“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.”

“You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.”