To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched.

That is, theoretically we may ascribe them to God, but practically we dissociate Him from them.

Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.

The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.

I would not ascribe to nature what is merely the outcome of my own moral views.

For to ascribe an attribute, is to conceive or think of such attribute.

And to the Gods we ascribe virtues; but idleness and indolence are not virtues.

The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.

I am inclined to ascribe these feelings at bottom to egotism.

I do indeed wish that you should not ascribe to me motives so unworthy and so mean.