110+ Matthew Henry Quotes On Marriage, Prayer And Adam And Eve

Matthew Henry was an English clergyman and Bible commentator. He was born in Wales in 1662 and died in 1714. He is best known for his six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, which is still widely used by pastors and Bible students today. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Matthew Henry on marriage, prayer, adam and eve.

Top 10 Matthew Henry Quotes

1. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
2. After a storm comes a calm.
3. It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.
4. No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
5. The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
6. 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.
7. They that die by famine die by inches.
8. Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
9. The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
10. Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Matthew Henry Image Quotes

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. — Matthew Henry

They that die by famine die by inches. — Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry Short Quotes

• It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.
• It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.
• We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.
• The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
• Better late than never.
• Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.
• None so blind as those who will not see.
• The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.
• The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.
• None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Matthew Henry Quotes About Prayer

The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God! — Matthew Henry

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. — Matthew Henry

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time. — Matthew Henry

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth. — Matthew Henry

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer. — Matthew Henry

Days of trouble must be days of prayer. — Matthew Henry

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray. — Matthew Henry

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season. — Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry Quotes About Prayerful

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer. — Matthew Henry

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him. — Matthew Henry

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor. — Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry Quotes About Feet

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. — Matthew Henry

Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved. — Matthew Henry

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry Quotes About Heaven

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. — Matthew Henry

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

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor. — Matthew Henry

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared. — Matthew Henry

All this and heaven too. — Matthew Henry

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul. — Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry Quotes About Heart

Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ. — Matthew Henry

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. — Matthew Henry

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word. — Matthew Henry

The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving. — Matthew Henry

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them. — Matthew Henry

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul. — Matthew Henry

Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire. — Matthew Henry

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity. — Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry Quotes About Church

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. — Matthew Henry

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. — Matthew Henry

Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church. — Matthew Henry

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors. — Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry Famous Quotes And Sayings

Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE! — Matthew Henry

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. — Matthew Henry

They that die by famine die by inches. — Matthew Henry

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. — 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. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other. — Matthew Henry

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

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. — Matthew Henry

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him. — 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. — Matthew Henry

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

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress. — Matthew Henry

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service. — Matthew Henry

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God? — Matthew Henry

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world. — Matthew Henry

If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it. — Matthew Henry

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. — Matthew Henry

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice. — Matthew Henry

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture. — Matthew Henry

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. — Matthew Henry

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man. — Matthew Henry

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

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence. — Matthew Henry

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing. — Matthew Henry

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. — Matthew Henry

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. — Matthew Henry

The better day, the worse deed. — Matthew Henry

Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves. — Matthew Henry

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. — Matthew Henry

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one. — Matthew Henry

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience. — Matthew Henry

Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day. — Matthew Henry

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. — Matthew Henry

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

Saying and doing are two things. — Matthew Henry

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples. — Matthew Henry

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse. — Matthew Henry

Our creature comforts — Matthew Henry

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts. — Matthew Henry

To fish in troubled waters. — Matthew Henry

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. — Matthew Henry

Men of polite learning and a liberal education. — Matthew Henry

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. — Matthew Henry

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). — Matthew Henry

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people. — Matthew Henry

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing. — Matthew Henry

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone. — Matthew Henry

No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so. — Matthew Henry

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them. — Matthew Henry

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness. — Matthew Henry

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world. — Matthew Henry

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy. — Matthew Henry

A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun. — Matthew Henry

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

Not lost, but gone before. — Matthew Henry

It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell. — Matthew Henry

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. — Matthew Henry

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side. — Matthew Henry

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after. — Matthew Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. — Matthew Henry

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him. — Matthew Henry

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well? — Matthew Henry

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to. — Matthew Henry

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance. — Matthew Henry

Life Lessons by Matthew Henry

1. Matthew Henry taught us to be humble and to recognize that our own understanding is limited compared to God's.
2. He also encouraged us to be generous and to put others before ourselves.
3. Finally, he showed us that faith and prayer are essential to living a life of purpose and meaning.