Quotes About Substitute

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

Prediction – even perfect, universal prediction – is simply no substitute for explanation.

What I am concerned about is when tolerance is raised to a political principle and used as a substitute for discourses of justice, equality, or even freedom. What I am suggesting is that when it is raised to the level of a political principle of that sort, it usually cloaks the kinds of powers that are at issue.

The surrender Jesus invites from us—choosing his will and his life over our own—can never be motivated by anything but love. But we can and frequently do offer a substitute for surrender—something that looks superficially enough like it that we easily confuse it with surrender. We can offer obedience.

Similarly, people who are afraid to look deeply at themselves will of course be equally afraid to look deeply at God. For such persons, ideas about God provide a substitute for direct experience of God.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

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.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?""What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said."Tomorrow morning, " Mabel said.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.