Quotes about Reference

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.

One of the most damning indictments of mankind is found in Isaiah 53:6: "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way" (Niv). Going our own way is the very essence, the very core, of sin. Your way may be to give money to charity; another person's way may be to rob a bank. But neither is done with reference to God; both of you have gone your own way.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

To footnote properly takes time.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Universes fashioned by words and concepts that work together to provide a more or less coherent frame of reference for all thought and action.

As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483).

Having looked at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one, nor any particle of one, but has reference to the Soul. —Walt Whitman

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.