Charles Hodge Quotes

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded.

Charles Hodge

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• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Hate

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• Developing nations want to become developed nations.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Want
  • Become
  • Nations

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Speak

• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Limit

• You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Father
  • Grandmother
  • Animals

• I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Stuff
  • Designer
  • Expensive

• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Stick
  • Needle

• When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Money

• Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • September
  • Terrorist
  • Attacks

• The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • American
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

  

  Weegee
  • Hot
  • Photographer
  • Ems

• If the sheriff is cutting the program on drug testing, why are we approving a contract to show videos to inmates?

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Why
  • Cutting
  • Drug

• The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Great
  • Internet
  • I Think

• Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Hope
  • Heaven
  • Darkness

• There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Moral
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

  

  William Cowper
  • Bird
  • Wings
  • Endurance

• Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Common
  • Very
  • Cows

• If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Darkness
  • Atheism
  • Mysteries