Matthew Henry Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

  Matthew Henry

  Thinking, People, Desire

• 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.

  Matthew Henry

  People, Desire, Delight

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.2918, Harper Collins

• God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Expectations, Desire

  Matthew Henry (1866). “Directions for daily communion with God, in 3 discourses, and The communicant's companion”, p.10

• To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

  Matthew Henry

  Waiting, Desire, Delight

  Matthew Henry (1848). “Daily Communion with God: Christianity No Sect ; The Sabbath ; The Promises of God ; The Worth of the Soul ; A Church in the House”, p.102

• A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Design, Good Man

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song”, p.82

• I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

  Matthew Henry

  Desire, Needs, May

  Matthew Henry, George Whitefield, Alexander MacLaren (2001). “Classic Sermon Outlines”, p.12, Hendrickson Publishers

• Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Desire, Christ

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