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title: 'Charles Hodge: Piety is the Life of a Minister'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-04-16
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-charles-hodge-piety-is-the-life-of-a-minister
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# Charles Hodge: Piety is the Life of a Minister

“May I be taught of God that I may be able to teach others also. It is only the heart that has been deeply exercised in divine things which can enable us to preach experimentally to others. Piety is the life of a minister.” — [**Charles Hodge**](/authors/charles-hodge), Diary entry for February 13, 1820