284 Quotes by 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.

When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.

The wits or wills of men, their inventions or their injunctions, cannot make that to be sin which the law of God has not made to be so.

The best use we can make of our worldly wealth is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity.

Note, Those who go about to mock God do but deceive themselves. Hypocrisy in religion is the greatest folly as well as wickedness, since the God we have to do with can easily see through all our disguises, and will certainly deal with us hereafter, not according to our professions, but our practices.

All those who rejoice in the success of the church’s enemies will share with them in their downfall; and those who have most indulged themselves in pride and pleasure are the least able to bear calamities; their sorrows will be as excessive as their pleasure and jollity were before.

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.

When God pardons sin he quite abolishes it, casts it behind his back.

All the benefit of our religious services is lost if we do not improve them, and conduct ourselves aright afterwards.