Matthew Henry Quotes

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.