Charles Hodge

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all…

— Charles Hodge

There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.

— Charles Hodge

“Reason, tradition, speculative conviction, dead orthodoxy, are a girdle of spider-webs. They give way at the first onset. Truth alone, as abiding…

— Charles Hodge

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are…

— Charles Hodge

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to…

— Charles Hodge

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in…

— Charles Hodge

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith…

— Charles Hodge

The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians…

— Charles Hodge

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent,…

— Charles Hodge

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of…

— Charles Hodge

All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing…

— Charles Hodge

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this…

— Charles Hodge

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

— Charles Hodge

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

— 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…

— 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

In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in…

— Charles Hodge

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill…

— Charles Hodge

It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society…

— Charles Hodge

It is important that when we come to die we have nothing to do but die.

— Charles Hodge

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance…

— Charles Hodge

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do;…

— Charles Hodge

No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when…

— Charles Hodge

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

— Charles Hodge

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded…

— Charles Hodge