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  • You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

    Charles Colson (1994). “Faith on the Line”, Chariot Victor Publishing
  • If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

    "Misremembering America’s Wars, 2003-2053" by Nick Turse, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.
  • True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

    Flower   Fall   Roots  
  • We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

    Order   Ideas   Identity  
  • Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

    Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1
  • The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

    Christian   Teacher   Art  
  • Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they know it instantaneously. So we're a discernment ministry, continually trying to build Christians up so that they can discern between truth and error.

    Source: www.christianpost.com
  • If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

    Money   Church   Want  
  • There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

    David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1961). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”
  • Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

    Lying   Monsters   States  
  • Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

    Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
  • You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

  • Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

    Flower   Eye   Men  
    William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238
  • Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics
  • A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

  • Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

    Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”
  • He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

  • The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

    Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins (1787). “The Idler”, p.68
  • Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

    Happiness   Happy   Real  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.
  • You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

  • A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

    Humble   Humility   Men  
  • Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

    Passion   Heart   Soul  
  • Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

  • Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

    Satan   God Bless   Curse  
  • Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

    Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.312, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

    Men   Essence   Quality  
    Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.401
  • Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

    "Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.
  • General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

    Loss   Jewels   Care  
    John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.559
  • I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.

    Acting   Looks   Sides  
    William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA
  • We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

    Past   Sea   Differences  
    Robert G. Ingersoll (1997). “Ingersoll's Greatest Lectures”, p.451, Health Research Books
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