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Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.
— Matthew Henry
Our creature comforts
— 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.
— Matthew Henry
Abram was very rich and yet very religious.
— Matthew Henry
None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.
— Matthew Henry
It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes,
— Matthew Henry
They that die by famine die by inches.
— Matthew Henry
Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
— Matthew Henry
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
— Matthew Henry
If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
— Matthew Henry
Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.
— Matthew Henry
The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.
— Matthew Henry
God is to be trusted in the use of means.
— Matthew Henry
Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.
— Matthew Henry
Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others.
— Matthew Henry
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
— Matthew Henry
Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.
— Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
— Matthew Henry
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
— Matthew Henry
None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
— Matthew Henry
The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.
— Matthew Henry
God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
— Matthew Henry
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
— Matthew Henry
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
— Matthew Henry
thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.
— Matthew Henry
ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.
— Matthew Henry
When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them.
— Matthew Henry
Such is the corruption of nature that the bad are much more likely to debauch the good than the good to reform the bad.
— Matthew Henry
The service of sin is perfect slavery.
— Matthew Henry
They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.
— Matthew Henry
Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.
— Matthew Henry
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.
— Matthew Henry
When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.
— Matthew Henry
It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.
— Matthew Henry
Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.
— Matthew Henry
Though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet not from the command of it,
— Matthew Henry
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.
— Matthew Henry
Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
— Matthew Henry
so bad a thing is it to invade God's property, and so cautious should we be to abstain from all appearances of this evil.
— Matthew Henry
The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.
— Matthew Henry
Those that are above business.
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To fish in troubled waters.
— Matthew Henry
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
— Matthew Henry
Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
— Matthew Henry
Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.
— Matthew Henry
Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.
— Matthew Henry
for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience.
— Matthew Henry
Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.
— Matthew Henry
It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)
— Francis Chan
One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;
— Matthew Henry
Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.
— Matthew Henry
Those are marked for ruin who persist in sin, and are not ashamed of the abominations they have committed, Jer. 8:12.
— Matthew Henry
To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him.
— Matthew Henry
Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.
— Matthew Henry
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
— Matthew Henry
Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
— Matthew Henry
The observance of the laws of Christ cannot be less necessary than the observance of the laws of Moses was.
— Matthew Henry
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
— Matthew Henry
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.
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All this and heaven too.
— Matthew Henry
Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.
— Matthew Henry
They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
— Matthew Henry
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
— Matthew Henry
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
— Matthew Henry
It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.
— Matthew Henry
When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.
— Matthew Henry
I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.
— Matthew Henry
The liberty of God's people is a heavy grievance to their enemies, Esth. 5:12, 13; Acts 5:17, 33.
— Matthew Henry
The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity, and what we should be most solicitous about for ourselves and others.
— Matthew Henry
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
— Matthew Henry
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.
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Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.
— Matthew Henry
What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing
it hides the word. — Matthew Henry
it hides the word. — Matthew Henry
For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel:
— Matthew Henry
A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.
— Matthew Henry