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Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. ↗

— Jim Hodges

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I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references. ↗

— Jim Hodges

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I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that. ↗

— Jim Hodges

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A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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