Charles Hodge

“The Bible is a plain book. It is intelligible to the common mind.”

“Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. It is the communion of the creature with the Creator.”

“If the Bible is the Word of God, then it is the authoritative rule of faith and practice.”

“The great rule of interpretation with all the early Christians was, ‘Interpret Scripture by Scripture.’”

“A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption.”

“Justification is an act of God's free grace.”

“The inward work of the Holy Spirit is necessary to the right interpretation of the Scriptures.”

“The Gospel is the exhibition of the love of God to sinners.”

“There can be no real knowledge of God that is not reverential.”

“The true method of theology is the inductive method.”

“The Scriptures teach not only that God is, but also what He is.”

“The first great doctrinal truth of the Bible is that God is a Spirit, — a truth which we are required to believe on the authority of His own declaration.”

“To be a Christian is to be a disciple of Christ.”

“The attributes of God are the perfections of his infinite being.”

“The design of the Sabbath is the good of man.”