Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.”
“That creature which we idolize God justly removes from us, or embitters to us.”
“the more we see of God's glory in his works the more we shall desire to see.”
“Those that name the name of Christ, but do not depart from iniquity, as that name binds them to do, name it in vain; their worship is vain”
“Note, Those who go about to mock God do but deceive themselves. Hypocrisy in religion is the greatest folly as well as wickedness, since the God we have to do with can easily see through all our disguises, and will certainly deal with us hereafter, not according to our professions, but our practices.”
“All the disciples and followers of the Lord Jesus must be nonconformists to this world.”
“Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much power over themselves as not to oppress; great might is a very great snare to many.”
“Marriage is not an invention of men, but a divine institution, and”
“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.”
“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”
“the Pharisees, and the other self-justifying Jews, who though that they needed no repentance, and that therefore God should abundantly rejoice in them, and make his boast of them, as those that were most his honour; but Christ tells them that it was quite otherwise, that God was more praised in, and pleased with, the penitent broken heart of one of those despised, envied sinners, than all the long prayers which the scribes and Pharisees made, who could not see any thing amiss in themselves. Nay,”
“Skill in secular employments is God's gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.”
“That even under the gospel of peace and reconciliation by Christ (of which the intercession of Moses was typical) the moral law should continue to bind believers.”
“Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our comfort in him,”
“The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.”
“it is a great mercy to be reclaimed and called home when we go astray, though it be by a tempest.”
“Children should be directed and encouraged to ask their parents questions concerning the things of God, a practice which would be perhaps of all others the most profitable way of catechising;”
“God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.”
“When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.”
“When God pardons sin he quite abolishes it, casts it behind his back.”
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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.