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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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The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.
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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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In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.
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Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.
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God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
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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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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
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Love is the root obedience is the fruit.
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When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.
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No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.
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He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
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Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
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Days of trouble must be days of prayer.
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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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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
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None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.
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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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Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.
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