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Quotes About Substitution

I stopped drinking before I became a comic; one was a replacement for the other.
~ Frank Skinner
As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
~ John Stott
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
~ Havelock Ellis
When Chelsea signed Ashley Cole I was playing really well at the time, and we were playing against Charlton. We were 1-0 up when they equalised and immediately afterwards my number came up and I was subbed off for Ashley. I knew then that my time at Chelsea was up.
~ Wayne Bridge
I sang along, but I could not help noticing that if you replaced the word Jesus with Great Leader, the content was not so different from some of the North Korean songs my students chanted several times each day.
~ Suki Kim
Pensó que un Dios probable tendría que sustituir el imaginado infierno general y llameante por pequeños infiernos individuales.A cada uno el suyo, según una divina justicia y los méritos hechos
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
At Benfica, I started playing because the starting goalkeeper got injured.
~ Ederson
When someone gets injured someone has to step up and fill his place.
~ Gylfi Sigurdsson
The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
~ Noreena Hertz
How does it feel, whispered Faith, to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place?
~ Frances Hardinge
Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.
~ Billy Graham
Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.
~ Billy Graham
If it's going to a company, use a Substitute thought. For example, if it's an electric bill, see electricity (lightning) shooting out of a mailbox.
~ Harry Lorayne
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
~ Clarence Clemons
The more the reader's imagination can be substituted for detail from the writer, the greater the reader's experience will be.
~ Sol Stein
We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.
~ Peter Kreeft
The question we must ask today is "Do we get Jesus?" or have we substituted false portraits of him in our theology?
~ Michael Hardin
As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.
~ Michael Pollan
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
~ Bryn Terfel
If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.
~ George Harrison
A hundred years after his death, a statue of Lavoisier was erected in Paris and much admired until someone pointed out that it looked nothing like him. Under questioning the sculptor admitted that he had used the head of the mathematician and philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet—apparently he had a spare—in the hope that no one would notice or, having noticed, would care.
~ Bill Bryson
Macro substitution is almost never necessary in C++. Use const (§7.5), constexpr (§2.2.3, §10.4), enum or enum class (§8.4) to define manifest constants, inline (§12.1.5) to avoid function-calling overhead, templates (§3.4, Chapter 23) to specify families of functions and types, and namespaces (§2.4.2, §14.3.1) to avoid name clashes.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Keating can be somewhat liberal with the profanity, so I shall substitute the word 'albatross' where necessary, and you may read that part privately later.
~ Suzanne Enoch