15 Archibald Alexander Hodge Quotes

Archibald Alexander Hodge (A.A. Hodge), was an American Presbyterian leader, and served as the principal of Princeton Theological Seminary from 1878–1886.

A. A. Hodge spent the majority of his life writing, lecturing, and preaching. He had a great influence on Christianity up until his death in 1886. Here are some of his most popular quotes.

“He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge—where it is written and where it is to be found.”
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“But love to God is the foundation-principle upon which all moral duties rest, just as our relation to God is the fundamental relation upon which all our other relations rest.”
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“Revelation is the work of the Holy Ghost communicating to men, by supernatural means, new truth”
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“This is the best definition of God ever written: God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.”
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“A Christian has no right to separate his life into two realms… to say the Bible is good for Sunday, but this is a week-day question, or the Scriptures are right in matters of religion, but this is a matter of business or politics. God reigns over all, everywhere.”
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“All authority and power descends, and does not ascend. Pastors and elders teach and rule in the name of God, and not of man.”
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“Yet that the highest and most influential faith in the truth and authority of the Scriptures is the direct work of the Holy Spirit on our hearts.”
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“All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass– ‘Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.’”
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“Every believer, when brought to the knowledge of the truth, enters into a covenant with his Lord, which he renews in all acts of faith and prayer.”
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“These inspired Scriptures incidentally contain much history and prophecy, and hence throw light both upon the past and future of mankind. But their principal design is to teach us– what we are to believe as to God and his relations and purposes as to us; and what duties God requires of us.”
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“The most essential characteristic of the salvation of Christ is that it is entirely of grace from beginning to end.”
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“Trust rests upon the grounds of assurance, while hope reaches forward to the object of which assurance is given. Trust is the foundation of hope. Hope is the fruit of trust. The more confiding the trust, the more assured the hope.”
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“Our only source of reliable knowledge is the word of God”
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“Inspiration is the continuous influence of the Holy Ghost upon the sacred writers in the act of writing the Word of God to men, so that they were directed to write the very truth God designed, and prevented from all error in doing so.”
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