Matthew Henry Quotations | Page 3

Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

Their own second and sober thoughts.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

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.

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

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

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