"The counsels and decrees of God do not……" — Matthew Henry
"The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man."
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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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More Counsels Quotes
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Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
— Roger L'Estrange
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
— Livy
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How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the…
— John Flavel
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The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him…
— Hesiod
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But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices…
— Franklin Pierce
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Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing.…
— Laura Miller
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Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It…
— Louis XIV
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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband…
— Robert Burns
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the…
— Francis Bacon
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Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the…
— Edmund Burke
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God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves.…
— Martin Luther
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