The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν τὴν ἐνεργουμένην ἐν ἡμῖν, according to the power that worketh in us. The infinite power of God from which so much… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
