Matthew Henry

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

"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."

"Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it."

"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

"The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it."

"An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money."

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

"In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other."

"I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed."

"None is so deaf as those that will not hear."

"They that die by famine die by inches."

"To fish in troubled waters."

"Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life."

"Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves."

"Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped. More souls are ruined by pride than by any other sin whatever."

"It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.""

"Blushing is the colour of virtue."

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

"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."

"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."

"Not lost, but gone before."

"Those that are above business."

"Better late than never."

"Saying and doing are two things."

"Judas had given them the slip."

"Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour."

"After a storm comes a calm."

"Men of polite learning and a liberal education."

"None so blind as those that will not see."

"Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately."

"The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved."

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

"The better day, the worse deed."

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

"To their own second thoughts."

"He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel."

"Our creature comforts"