Logo
Quote by Charles Hodge
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of t

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge

Other quotes by Charles Hodge

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied. – Charles Hodge

Category:
Faith
Author
Charles Hodge
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

A politicians goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. – Dean Koontz

Category:
power

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! – Samuel Richardson

Category:
power

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Category:
power

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
power

Random Quotes

Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. – Arthur D. Little

Category:
Research

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things. – Lev Grossman

Category:
Science

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. – Robert Green Ingersoll

Category:
God

Dont worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself. – David Brown

Category:
Love :: Self-love