"If therefore our houses be houses of the……" — Matthew Henry
"If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts ... A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you."
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142 Quotes by Matthew Henry
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A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and…
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No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his…
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Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.
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Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
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We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for…
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Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
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God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
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Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.
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You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.
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In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not…
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Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of…
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Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
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— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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