Quotes About Substitution

Nevertheless, despite all superficial continuity, a remarkable change has come about within the last seventy-five years. The change is nothing less than the substitution of paganism for Christianity as the dominant view of life. Seventy-five years ago, Western civilization, despite inconsistencies, was still predominantly Christian; today it is predominantly pagan. (1923)

Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell-by date. Justice does not.

We sent a robot to do a man's job.

If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found quickly, System 1 will find a related question that is easier and will answer it. I call the operation of answering one question in place of another substitution.

Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one?

A racket is a family-authorized feeling used to replace an unacceptable and shameful feeling.

DON'T CHASE, REPLACE.

When a big player leaves, a big player leaves. You're at a big club like Liverpool, another big player will come in the future.

Then the geese replaced themselves with six pigs and vanished.

Todo el sistema sacrificial del Antiguo Testamento estableció a Cristo crucificado. Cada animal ofrecido en un altar era una confesión práctica de que era necesario un Salvador que muriera por los pecadores, un Salvador que quitara el pecado del hombre, por su sufrimiento, como su Sustituto, es decir, que padeciera en su lugar (1 P. 3:18). ¡Es absurdo suponer que el sacrificio de animales inocentes, sin más objetivo que la sola muerte, podría agradar al Dios eterno!

an award one's superiors gave in lieu of a bonus—

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist.

To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

From your mind I was easily erased and from your heart I was easily replaced..

I'm the person everyone replaces after a while.

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

Having suffered under their parents' rigid marriages and formalized evasions, they sought to substitute an essential fidelity set in a matrix of easy and open companionship among couples. For the forms of the country club they substituted informal membership in a circle of friends and participation in a cycle of parties and games.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

The worst moments in life: feeling sick and tired, cancelled plans, not getting enough sleep, and being replaced.

But life, gradually revealing to me the permanence of our needs, had taught me that if a person is unobtainable we have to settle for someone else, and I felt that what I had asked of Albertine could have been supplied by another, like Mlle de Stermaria.

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing.

Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God