Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Charles Hodge (American Theologian)

Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American theologian and a prominent biblical scholar during the 19th century. A leader of the “Princeton School” of Reformed, or orthodox Calvinist, theology, he stressed the verbal infallibility of the Bible and asserted other generally conservative views.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hodge studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he became a professor of biblical literature in 1822 and later principal (1851–78.)

Hodge founded (1825) and edited (1825–71) the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, to which he contributed nearly 150 articles. He wrote a history of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (1840) and the well-known Systematic Theology (1871–72.) American congregations such as the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals adopted many of Hodge’s conservative ideas.

Hodge’s son, Archibald Alexander Hodge (1823–86,) who succeeded his father at Princeton in 1878, wrote Outlines of Theology (1860.)

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The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading, and exalt without inflating him.
Charles Hodge
Topics: Humility

In many things a comprehensive survey of a subject is the shortest way of getting at a precise knowledge of a particular division of it.
Charles Hodge
Topics: Knowledge

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
Topics: Authority

The value of a maxim depends on four things; its intrinsic excellence or the comparative correctness of the principle it embodies; the subject to which it relates; the extent of its application; and the comparative ease with which it may be applied in practice.
Charles Hodge

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