Matthew Henry
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.Collection: Thinking
When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.Collection: Mother
The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.Collection: Prayer
They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.Collection: Scripture
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.Collection: Bible
The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.Collection: Distance
God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.Collection: Prayer
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.Collection: Reign
God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.Collection: Worst Enemy
Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.Collection: Heart
Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.Collection: Christian
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.Collection: Practice
None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.Collection: Election
A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.Collection: Men
Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.Collection: Ends
Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.Collection: Peace
. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.Collection: Ready
When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.Collection: Prayer
Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.Collection: Jewels
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.Collection: Men
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.Collection: Enemy
In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.Collection: Beautiful
None so blind as those who will not see.Collection: Vegan
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.Collection: Color
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.Collection: Omnipotence
Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.Collection: Mistake
None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.Collection: Christ
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.Collection: Song
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.Collection: Saint
If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.Collection: Grace
That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.Collection: Care
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.Collection: Light
It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.Collection: Worship
God warns before he wounds.Collection: Wounds
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.Collection: Dark
What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?Collection: Peace With God
Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.Collection: Followers
Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.Collection: Spiritual
The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.Collection: Christian
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.Collection: Fear
ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.Collection: Gratitude
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.Collection: Christian
Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.Collection: Enemy
Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.Collection: Heart
What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.Collection: Grace
The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.Collection: Riches
Their own second and sober thoughts.Collection: Sober
When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).Collection: Sorry
Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.Collection: Thinking