Quotes about Substitute

it is possible to allow the study of the text, and of different interpretations of the text, to become a substitute for allowing the text to bring us into the presence of the living God.

Like every alternative to Christianity, the mechanistic worldview was essentially a substitute religion, a mental idol.

An idol is anything in the created order that is put in the place of God.

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place.

He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

And there was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

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

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.