284 Quotes by Matthew Henry

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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