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Quotes About Substitution

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
~ John Andrew Holmes
It is like exchanging butterflies for moths.
~ John Connolly
He became sin so you could be holy. He was broken so you could be whole. He was a man of sorrow, so you could have joy. He was bruised for your iniquity. He fasted so you could feast. By His stripes, you were healed. He bore poverty, so you could righteously prosper. He felt orphaned so you could be adopted as sons. Let us begin to see Him not so much as a teacher or moral guide, but as one who stepped in and took our place.
~ John Crowder
As It Ever Was ... So Shall It Never Be Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory and Violence in The Cabin in the Woods
~ Anthony R. Mills
Convocando a la Literatura para que supla aquello que se ha perdido
~ Antonio Tabucchi
I think when you come off the bench, you know you're going to play, but you don't know really when, what time in the game, what quarter, so it's kind of different.
~ LeSean McCoy
The very fact that a man or woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all. For though sex is replaceable, love is not. Sex is for pleasure; love is for a person. Cows can graze on other pastures, but a person admits of no substitution.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
I get cast at the last minute. I don't know, maybe somebody drops out and they can't get someone, and someone is like, 'Oh, how about Katia Winter?'
~ Katia Winter
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
~ Ben Shapiro
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
~ Julia Ward Howe
I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
~ Peter Porter
Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.
~ Sadhguru
For Mark, it is about participation with Jesus and not substitution by Jesus.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.
~ Margaret Atwood
The CorpSeCorps always substituted rumour for action, if action would cost them anything. They believed in the bottom line.
~ Margaret Atwood
What happened to him? (Lioness) He pissed me off. (Savitar) Why hasn't one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness) He pissed me off...big time. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Let me pay the price for you instead.
~ Anne Rice
But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.
~ Sheila Walsh
What happened to him? (Lioness) He pissed me off. (Savitar) Why hasn't one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness) He pissed me off...big time. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].
~ Michael B. Jordan
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
~ Philip Pullman
Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Nor did Baggio endear himself to the Juventus faithful by his loyalty to Fiorentina. In the Fiorentina-Juve match in April 1991, Juve won a penalty. Baggio refused to take it, and it was missed. He was then substituted, and on his way to the bench picked up and put on a Fiorentina scarf. Weeks of argument followed.
~ John Foot
Women grieve, and men replace.
~ Elizabeth Strout