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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
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Theologian
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Sir y Fflint
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Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.
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Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.
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The Bible is a letter God has sent to us prayer is a letter we send to him.
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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.
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If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.
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What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.
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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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ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.
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Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
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After a storm comes a calm.
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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.
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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.
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Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.
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Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.
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To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.
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What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
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Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.
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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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Days of trouble must be days of prayer.
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