Matthew Henry Quotes

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

It was always very clear to me that God was sovereign in salvation.

Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.