Quotes about Superficial

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.

The blessing is often superficial or transitory, just because they are not the nothing that opens the way for God to be all.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity.

I would almost describe spirituality as a concern for one's being, one's inner motivation and attitude, one's real inner Source, as opposed to any primary concern for one's "doing." Doing will always take care of itself when your being is right. It is our preoccupation with external forms and successes that makes us superficial, judgmental, split off and often just downright wrong—without knowing it.   god

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.