Professing Quotes
54 quotes by 48 authors
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Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.
— Stephen Baldwin
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
— Alexander Hamilton
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After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled…
— Adoniram Judson
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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The…
— Ellen G. White
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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
— Henry Adams
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,…
— Patrick Henry
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Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that…
— George Whitefield
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...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
— John Stuart Mill
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
— Grover Cleveland
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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but…
— Walter Pater
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Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus,…
— Ray Comfort
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The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'
— Leonard Ravenhill
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I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick…
— Russell Baker
Who Wrote These Professing Quotes
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