Archibald Alexander Hodge Quotes

• Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

• It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Topics in Truth, Wisdom

  Tags in Men

• I’m giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Useful

• None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once – come as you are.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• You must never go down to the end of the town if you don’t go down with me.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge – who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

• How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

Archibald Alexander Hodge (18)

Birth:	18th July, 1823
Death:	12th November, 1886
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Leader, Pastor, Professor, Theologian

About

Archibald Alexander Hodge was an American Presbyterian leader, was the principal of Princeton Seminary between 1878 and 1886. He was the son of Charles Hodge, named after the first principal of Princeton Seminary, Archibald Alexander. Hodge attended the College of New Jersey and Princeton Theological Seminary. He served as a missionary in India for three years. He held pastorates at Lower West Nottingham, Maryland, Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In 1864 he accepted a call to the chair of systematic theology in Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Related Authors

• Sidney Hillman
• Lolita Lebrón
• Geronimo
• Saint Alfred
• Joseph Smith
• Stephen Lewis
• Stephen LaBerge
• Dhyani Ywahoo
• Anna Howard Shaw
• Shunryu Suzuki

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 21st May

Births

• 1841 - Dr Joseph Parry
• 1944 - Mary Therese Winifred Robinson
• 1917 - Raymond Burr
• 1951 - Al Franken

Deaths

• 1926 - Ronald Firbank
• 1983 - Kenneth Clark
• 1995 - Les Aspin
• 1999 - Vanessa Brown
• 1991 - Rajiv Gandhi