Matthew Henry
You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.Collection: Men
It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.Collection: Repent
When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.Collection: People
If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.Collection: Jealous
Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.Collection: Heart
God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from his head to be his mental superior, and did take him from that which is nearest his heart, that he might love her, and that which is under his arm, that he might protect her.Collection: Heart
None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.Collection: Hate
If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.Collection: Sweet
Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.Collection: Christian
None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.Collection: Deaf And Blind
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.Collection: Book
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.Collection: Bible
The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.Collection: Beautiful
It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.Collection: Heaven
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.Collection: People
Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.Collection: Jesus
You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.Collection: Christian
Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.Collection: Humble
It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).Collection: Men
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.Collection: Sleep
Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.Collection: Oil
The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.Collection: Men
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.Collection: Errors
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Integrity
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.Collection: Christian
For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.Collection: Love Is
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.Collection: Joy
The service of sin is perfect slavery.Collection: Perfect
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.Collection: Children
Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Atheist
Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.Collection: Heart
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.Collection: Spring
None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.Collection: Spirituality
Those who complain most are most to be complained of.Collection: Complaining
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.Collection: Prayer
I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.Collection: Thinking
God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. We wrong God, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. God honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours God if he makes him after the likeness of his body. The Godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Humility
God's favour is happiness.Collection: Favour
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him.... As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.Collection: Christian
A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.Collection: Heart
The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.Collection: Grace
I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.Collection: Desire
Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.Collection: Men
Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.Collection: Cost
Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.Collection: Men
Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.Collection: Lord