#hr

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#christ #claim #claiming #does #earth

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#call #calls #christ #church #duties

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

#authority #christ #civil #derive #divine

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

#church #earth #head #his #must

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

#assumes #believers #christ #church #constituted

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#because #category #crack #fell #fit

South Park started as a little video Christmas card. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#christmas #little #park #south #south park

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#idea #into #mediocrity #original #original idea

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#between #both #cloth #concerned #distinction