Matthew Henry
Matthew Henry
Matthew Henrywas a Nonconformist minister and author, born in Wales, United Kingdom but spending much of his life in England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth18 October 1662
humble expectations house
Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.
scripture praying wells
They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
prayer meals prayer-time
Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
prayer trouble
Days of trouble must be days of prayer.
vegan blind american-gods
None so blind as those who will not see.
christian christian-inspirational promise
We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.
hands justice mercy
Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.
bible christian heart
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
heart covenant mercy
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.
elephants lambs depth
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
prayer expectations desire
God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
spirituality live-by
None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
omnipotence temptation might
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.
kindness children errors
We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.