Professing Quotes

54 quotes by 48 authors

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith. — Stephen Baldwin
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
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
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
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. — H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce
My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things. — Grover Cleveland
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but… — Walter Pater
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
The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.' — Leonard Ravenhill
I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again. — Leonard Ravenhill
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

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