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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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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
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Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
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If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.
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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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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
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A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
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Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
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The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.
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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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Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.
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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
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The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.
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The better day, the worse deed.
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We should take heed of pride it is a sin that turned angels into devils.
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Not lost, but gone before.
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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
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There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.
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Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.
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The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
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Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
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