Referring To God Quotes

#1. From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

William Ames

#2. When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Dennis Miller

#3. I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

Roz Chast

#4. The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#5. The mysterious sentence, "You are My Son; this day have I begotten You," may refer to the deep and secret Truth of God of the Eternal Filiation of our Lord, whatever that may be. But Paul quotes it in the 13th chapter of Acts as referring to His Resurrection.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

Brennan Manning

#7. Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill

Iris Johansen

#8. Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

C.S. Lewis

#9. The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

C.S. Lewis

#11. There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.

Rob Lowe

#12. We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus much deeper down, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything back to Him; instead of this we make our commonsense decisions and ask God to bless them.

Oswald Chambers

#13. A gunshot screamed into the night. Both Isaiah and I froze. I prayed to God that nothing warm or wet left my body, and I wasn't referring to piss.

Katie McGarry

#14. If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

Cat Stevens

#15. [The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Robert Altman

#16. Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
O hateful error, Melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'st the mother that engendered thee.

William Shakespeare

#17. Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.

Mac Miller

#18. Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Jeremy Taylor

#19. When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

Nicolas Cage

#21. Heard someone say children are god's gift to the world. What world are you referring to? And what's your definition of gift?

Dov Davidoff

#22. War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

Hans Von Seeckt

#23. Creator is just pure intelligence. Intelligence beyond logic is Creator, or what you are referring to as God.

Jaggi Vasudev

#24. In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.

Brother Lawrence

#25. Penn was beginning to darkly conclude that this place had more laws that Ica.

B.J. Ranson

#26. Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.

Billy Graham

#27. As Eckhart, one of Otto's many sources, had asserted centuries earlier, referring to the Other as "God," the religious seeker must set aside "any idea about God as being good, wise, [or] compassionate.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#28. Be careful that you don't give charitable gifts before men to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Frederick Hoehn

#29. Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)

Jennifer Birkett

#30. People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.

Kirsty Coventry