Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition. — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice. — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children — Jim George Copy Share Image
...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler Copy Share Image
Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy. — John Green Copy Share Image
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for,… — Marcia Falk Copy Share Image
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual.… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!),… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled that Alice Medrich, one of America's premier bakers, has embraced teff, buckwheat, oat, and rice flours. She understands that these… — Shauna James Ahern Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image