Quotes about Substitute

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

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.

There is in these words the beautiful maneuverability of the abstract rushing in to replace the intractability of the concrete.

The world is full of religions and religious people who don't know God. Religion can serve faith, but it doesn't substitute for faith, and it can never replace faith. Meaningful expressions of the heart, mind, and will become lifeless if they're not mixed with a deep and abiding faith.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the "god" of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts—and through us begin to change our world.

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.

As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.