Matthew Henry

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

“None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.”

“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”

“Duty is ours; events are God's.”

“Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises.”

“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”

“No man's spirits are very much hurt by doing his duty.”

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

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

“God's grace is his good-will towards us, and his good-work in us.”

“After a storm comes a calm.”

“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.”

“The best of men are but men at the best.”

“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.”