Matthew Henry Quotes

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

• The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

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  Topics in Fear, God

• Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

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• Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

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• They that die by famine die by inches.

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comfort

• The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

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• The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

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• The better day, the worse deed.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better

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

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  Tags in Great

• Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

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• Saying and doing are two things.

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  Topics in English Proverbs

• Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

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• Not lost, but gone before.

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• None so deaf as those that will not hear.

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• No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

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  Topics in God

• Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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  Topics in Education

• Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

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• It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Business

Matthew Henry (31)

Birth:	18th October, 1662
Death:	22nd June, 1714
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Clergyman, Commentator

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