1.
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
Al-Ghazali
The debasement of faiths stems from reducing them to mere verbalizations and facades.
2.
If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.
Vincent de Paul
If God is the nucleus of your life, no words are needed. Your mere being will move souls.
6.
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
Sappho
7.
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
Guy Debord
8.
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes
10.
The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.
William Lane Craig
12.
It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
Michel de Montaigne
13.
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
Doris Lessing
14.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
16.
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.
John Dewey
17.
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
W. Edwards Deming
18.
All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.
Adolf Hitler
19.
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.
Frank J. Tipler
21.
Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
Oswald Chambers
22.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Annette Funicello
24.
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
Jonathan Sacks
25.
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.
Medard Boss
26.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Seneca the Younger
28.
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
Jane Austen
30.
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
C. S. Lewis
31.
Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
Brian Lara
33.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
Jerome K. Jerome
34.
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
Aesop
35.
Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
Jean Racine
36.
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
37.
Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
Albert Einstein
38.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow
41.
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.
Fulton J. Sheen
43.
Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.
Masao Abe
44.
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.
Lucian Freud
45.
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.
Francis Atterbury
47.
Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
Walt Kelly
48.
People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.
John C. Maxwell
49.
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
Rex Stout