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
enemy half professors
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
punishment grace trials
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
gratitude
ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.
worst-enemy enemy your-best-friend
God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.
atheist men sin
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
feet heaven needs
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
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.
gratitude blessing work-out
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
spring sorrow tears
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.
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.
journey talking hiking
It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.