No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.
MATTHEW HENRY, The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry
Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it, one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off.
MATTHEW HENRY, The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry with Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
MATTHEW HENRY, Commentaries
Meekness is a grace that cleaves the stock, and holds it open, that the word, as a shoot, may be grafted in; it breaks up the fallow ground, and makes it fit to receive the seed; captivates the high thoughts, and lays the soul like white paper under God's pen.
MATTHEW HENRY, A Discourse Concerning Meekness and Quietness of Spirit
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous, springs up a pearl.
MATTHEW HENRY, attributed, Literary Extracts from English and Other Works
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
MATTHEW HENRY, attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
This meekness is an ornament, that, like the Israelites' clothes in the wilderness, never waxes old, nor will ever go out of fashion while right reason and religion have any place in the world: all wise and good people will reckon those best drest that put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and walk with him in the white of meekness and innocency.
MATTHEW HENRY, A Discourse Concerning Meekness and Quietness of Spirit
