284 Quotes by Matthew Henry

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

The remains of great and good men, like Elijah’s mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God’s all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

If you take a book into your hands, be it ‘God’s book, or any other useful good book,’ rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God’s kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.

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.

Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation;.

All Christians must be saints; and, if they come not under that character on earth, they will never be saints in glory.

Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.

Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.