Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.”
topics: Prayer
“Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.”
“We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.”
“Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.”
“It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.”
topics: Prayer
“Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.”
“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!”
topics: Peace
“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.”
topics: Peace
“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.”
“Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.”
“Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.”
“Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.”
“The devil visits idle men with his temptations. God visits industrious men with His favors.”
“Idleness gives great advantage to the tempter. Standing waters gather filth.”
topics: Idleness
“It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”
“Absalom, who was a fool, wished himself a judge; Solomon, who was a wise man, trembles at the undertaking, and suspects his own fitness for it. The more knowing and considerate men are, the better they are acquainted with their own weakness, and the more jealous of themselves.”
“The worse men are, the less they are bound by oaths; the better they are, the less there is need for them. Our Lord does not enjoin the precise terms wherein we are to affirm or deny, but such a constant regard to truth as would render oaths unnecessary.”
topics: Honesty
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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.