Substitutes Quotes
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"
Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
