#there

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#cannot #deal #father #go #great

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

#chosen #determine #elders #entitled #exercise

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #dwells #power #seat

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#administrative #christ #church #church power #directions

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

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

#bondage #church #delivering #did #every

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #discipline #doubt #government

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#attention #discovers #doing #done #formula

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ↗

— William R. Alger

#fields #gathered #gems #mental #mind