Matthew Henry Quotes

There is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he; let him ask for a suit of clothes.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.