Quotes about Substitute

Prayer is a marvelous and necessary supplement of our feeble efforts, but it is a dangerous substitute.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

All that Christ did in both His life and death, He did in our place as our substitute.

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Wrong. Christ was not our substitute but our representative, and since His saving passion was representative, it doesn't exempt us from suffering but rather endows our suffering with divine power and redemptive value.

Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Too often, we have substituted the messenger for the message. As a result, we spent a great deal of time worshiping the messenger and trying to get other people to do the same. Too often this obsession became a pious substitute for actually following what he taught—and he did ask us several times to follow him, and never once to worship him.