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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
Author
Theologian
Writer
Sir y Fflint
Sober
Thoughts
Second

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Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
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Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
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We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.
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None so blind as those who will not see.
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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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...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.
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They that die by famine die by inches.
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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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After a storm comes a calm.
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The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in 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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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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Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.
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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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No man will say, There is no God 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
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The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.
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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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Nature is content with little grace with less but lust with nothing.
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Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.
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