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title: 'Charles Hodge on a Faith Not to be Moved'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2022-09-07
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2022-charles-hodge-on-a-faith-not-to-be-moved
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# Charles Hodge on a Faith Not to be Moved

“A faith founded on argument may be shaken by arguments; but a conviction arising from religious experience, that is, from a state of consciousness produced by the Spirit of God, is not to be moved.” — [Charles Hodge](/authors/charles-hodge), “He Preached Christ,” a sermon preached October 9, 1859, in reference to the death of James Waddel Alexander