Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
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.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
You have been asked 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 pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843-1916)
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.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)
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.
Matthew Henry (Minister, 1843 – 1916)