Quotes about Substitution

For the Levites have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.

But I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

So do this: Dismiss all the kings from their positions and replace them with other officers.

Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.

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.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.