Matthew Henry
Matthew Henry
Matthew Henrywas a Nonconformist minister and author, born in Wales, United Kingdom but spending much of his life in England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth18 October 1662
punishment grace trials
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
worst-enemy enemy your-best-friend
God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.
kindness children errors
We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.
omnipotence temptation might
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.
bible despair thieves
There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.
elephants lambs depth
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
bible christian heart
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
umpires holiness attributes
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
humility pride practice
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
jewels world life-is
Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.
vegan blind american-gods
None so blind as those who will not see.
wounds
God warns before he wounds.
mistake thinking judging
Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.
purses firsts ethics
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.