Matthew Henry Quotes, Wise Quotes, Men Quotes

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

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God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

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It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

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

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May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

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A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

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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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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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Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

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When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

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What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

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What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

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If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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

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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

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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.

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If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

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Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

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The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

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Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

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