284 Quotes by Matthew Henry

Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses.

Thus have they committed two great evils, in which they persist, and from which they hate to be reformed; they take away from God’s word, and add to his worship.

Our creature comforts.

God’s servants must think nothing below them but sin.

The loser is here supposed to be a woman, who will more passionately grieve for her loss, and rejoice in finding what she had lost, than perhaps a man would do, and therefore it the better serves the purpose of the parable. She.

The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.

Christianity is the salt of the earth.

Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be made; else they are not of a sweet savour to God.

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.