„Když Bůh zamýšlí svému lidu projevit milosti, prvé je vede k modlitbě.“
Originál: (en) When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.
Zdroj: [Henry, Matthew, Commentary to the Whole Bible: Zechariah, Chapter XII., http://www.ccel.org/ccel/henry/mhc4.Zech.xiii.html, 6.9.2006, 2.2.2015, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
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Matthew Henry 59
teolog z Walesu 1662–1714Podobné citáty
„Být bez modlitby znamená být bez Boha, bez Krista, bez milosti, bez naděje a bez nebe.“
Originál: (en) To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
Zdroj: A Call to Prayer. S. 6.
Originál: (en) To forgive sin, or to show mercy to sinners, is an act to which God declares Himself more inclined, or better pleased with, than to destroy sinners.
Zdroj: [Caryl, Joseph, An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job: being the substance of forty-nine lectures, delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, https://archive.org/stream/expositionwithpr00cary#page/810/mode/2up, M. Simmons, London, 1661, 918, 811, angličtina]
Zdroj: [Matka Marie Theresie: Bůh vede, já jdu, radiovaticana.cz, 2013-11-11, 2013-11-12, http://www.radiovaticana.cz/clanek.php4?id=19096]
„Modlitba je plodná právě tím, že Bůh neodpovídá.“
„Bůh dovede pochytit smysl i ze zmatené modlitby.“
Originál: (en) God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 218.
„Vnější ztráty vedou dobré lidi k jejich modlitbám, ale špatné k jejich kletbám.“
Originál: (en) Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses.
Zdroj: [Henry, Matthew, Commentary to the Whole Bible: Judges, Chapter XVII., http://www.ccel.org/ccel/henry/mhc2.Jud.xviii.html, 6.9.2006, 2.2.2015, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
„Bible je dopis, který poslal Bůh nám; modlitba je dopis, který my zašleme jemu.“
Originál: (en) The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
Zdroj: [Henry, Matthew, 1830, The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: Containing, in Addition to Those Heretofore Published, Numberous Sermons, Now First Printed from the Original Manuscript; an Appendix, on What Christ is Made to Believers, in Forty Real Benefits, Joseph Ogle Robinson, https://books.google.cz/books?id=aMMt34wmy3YC&dq, London, 433, angličtina]