Matthew Henry Firsts Quotations

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

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.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.