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LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being.

Rumi

Desire, Way, Lovers

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Joshua L. Liebman

Love, Wise, Appreciation

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We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

Peter Kreeft

Mean, Reality, Insane

Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.138, Ignatius Press

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To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Harry Callahan

Photography, Book, Simple

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Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

Henry D. Moyle

Prayer, Conversations With God, Conversation

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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Henry Clay

Funny, Humorous, Teaching

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If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

John Kenneth Galbraith

Country, Deterioration, Use

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People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God.

Francis Howgill

God, Thinking, People

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A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

Bertrand Russell

Writing, Average, Long

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.115, 谷月社

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To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Sebastian Franck

Self, Letters, Scripture

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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

Honest, Poor, Prophecy

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.425, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sarcastic, Belief, Human Bondage

"The Creative Impulse". Harper's Bazar, August 1926.

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If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!

John Bytheway

Clever, Communication, Book

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To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.

Joseph Fielding Smith

Mother, Father, Successful

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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

Carl Jung

Incapacity, Objects, Memories Dreams Reflections

Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.193, Courier Corporation

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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.

Virginia Woolf

Reality, Literature, Disease

Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.123, HMH

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Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Ambrose Bierce

Ideas, Conversation, Denied

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.45, University of Georgia Press

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[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Michael Pollan

Government, Accountability, Vices

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Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

Ayn Rand

Men, Independence, Principles

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.877, Penguin

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But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

Jane Smiley

Girl, Horse, Children

Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.38, Faber & Faber

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Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing.

Margaret Atwood

Children, Should Have, Too Much

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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Mitch Albom

Tenderness, Comradeship

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.125, Broadway Books

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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Ray Bradbury

Thinking, Average, People

"Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

William Faulkner

Past, Something Better, Ifs

William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.169, Modern Library

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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

Watchman Nee

Christian, Thinking, Changed

Watchman Nee (2006). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.119, Hendrickson Publishers

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