Top 211 Quotes & Sayings by Matthew Henry - Page 4

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

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.

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Those that are above business.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Their own second and sober thoughts.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

Our creature comforts

No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

All this and heaven too.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

To fish in troubled waters.

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.

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

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.