We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt. " This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
The U. S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
