Quotes from Charles Hodge
The office of presbyters is a permanent one.
- Charles Hodge
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
- Charles Hodge
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
- Charles Hodge
There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began.
- Charles Hodge
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.
- Charles Hodge
When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.
- Charles Hodge
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
- Charles Hodge
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him
- Charles Hodge
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
- Charles Hodge
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
- Charles Hodge
That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
- Charles Hodge
It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
- Charles Hodge