Matthew Henry

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

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.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

After a storm comes a calm.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

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

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second because although they took my purse they did not take my life third because although they took my all it was not much and fourth because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.

To fish in troubled waters.