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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible QUOTES

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible QUOTES

1 " Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

2 " Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

3 " Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

4 " Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

5 " As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

6 " The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

7 " If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

8 " He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history; "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

9 " The Christian religion is the religion of sinners, of such as have sinned, and in whom sin in some measure still dwells.

The Christian life is a life of continued repentance, humiliation for and mortification of sin, of continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption, in which the believer shall be fully and finally acquitted, and sin abolished for ever. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

10 " It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

11 " Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother, for, though it be hidden from man, it will be found that God is the avenger of all such. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

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

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

13 " When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

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

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

15 " 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. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

16 " Man's extremity is God's opportunity of helping and saving. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

17 " The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

18 " When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

19 " Though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet not from the command of it, "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

20 " It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for him: "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible