Thanksgiving is good but thanks-living is better.
– Matthew Henry –
1662-1714 AD
Matthew Henry
The Grace of Christ – Matthew Henry
A man whose right hand was withered came to learn from Christ (see Luke 6:6). Whether he had any expectation to be healed by him does not appear. But those that would be cured by the grace of Christ must be willing to learn the doctrine of Christ.
– Matthew Henry –
The Joy Within True Religion – Matthew Henry
True piety hath true pleasure in it.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Have a Prospect of the Journey’s End – Matthew Henry
It is pleasant in a journey to have a prospect of the journey’s end—to see that the way we are in leads directly to it, and to see that it cannot be far off; every step we take is so much nearer it, nay, and we are within a few steps of it we have a prospect of being shortly with Christ in Paradise; yet a little while, and we shall be at home, we shall be at rest, and whatever difficulties we may meet with in our way, when we come to heaven all will be well—eternally well.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Danger of Saying Too Little – Matthew Henry
Be not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God; all the danger is of saying too little.
– Matthew Henry –
1662-1714
Walk in the Way of Wisdom – Matthew Henry
Wisdom saith, “This is the way, walk in it”; and you shall not only find life at the end, but pleasure in the way. That which is the only right way to happiness we must resolve to travel, and to proceed and persevere in it, whether it be fair or foul, pleasant or unpleasant: but it is a great encouragement to a traveller, to know that his way is not only the right way, but a pleasant way: and such the way to heaven is.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Jesus Set Us An Example – Matthew Henry
Though he had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.
– Matthew Henry –
August 8, 2015
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 –
February 19, 2015
The paths of wisdom are not like walks in the garden, which we make use of for diversion only, and an amusement; but like tracks in a great road, which we press forward in with care and pains, as a traveler in his journey, till we come to journey’s end.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714