Daily Inspiration Quote by Matthew Henry

A Puritan divine praises a message so staggering it sounds like a con, then insists it isn’t. Matthew Henry’s line lives in that tense space where faith has to negotiate with human suspicion. “Good news” is the classic Christian payload, but Henry sharpens it with a salesman’s phrase, “worthy of all acceptation,” echoing the biblical cadence of 1 Timothy (“worthy of all acceptation”). He’s not merely endorsing; he’s preemptively answering the skeptical reflex: If it feels this generous, surely there’s a catch.

That’s the subtext doing the real work. Henry knew his audience: late 17th- and early 18th-century Protestants shaped by controversy, moral rigor, and a deep awareness of self-deception. In that world, religious claims competed with sectarian noise, political anxiety, and the everyday reality of suffering. Credulity was a vice; “enthusiasm” (too much emotion, too little restraint) could be spiritually dangerous. So Henry stages a rhetorical handshake between wonder and prudence: yes, it’s astonishing; no, it’s not fantasy.

The phrase “and yet not too good to be true” reads like a controlled release valve. It gives believers permission to feel the sweetness of grace without feeling naive. It also subtly recasts disbelief as a category error: the gospel offends not because it’s implausible, but because it’s undeserved. Henry’s intent is pastoral and strategic at once - to make acceptance sound both rational and urgent, to turn doubt into the very reason the message needs repeating.