Quotes About Ascribing

Worship is the actual act of ascribing worth directly to God. Worshipful actions may do this indirectly, but when the Bible commands and commends worship as our highest expression, it is not talking about anything other than direct, intentional, Vertical outpouring of adoration.

Every instance in which the mercy of God occurs to our remembrance, ought to be embraced by us as an occasion of ascribing glory to God.

By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding, all are spared the bother of rational insight and knowledge.

Against the background of such considerations, which incidentally entail that we ought to be very cautious in ascribing subjectivity to individuals with severe forms of autism, the very notions of pre-reflective self-consciousness and mineness have been taken to be not only theoretical aberrations but also redundant and explanatorily vacuous

In the analysis of books, as in the analysis of complex world events, we hover between two kinds of error: ascribing too much meaning where there is little, if any, to be found, and ignoring meaning that stares us right in the face.