Professing Quotes
54 quotes by 48 authors
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Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.
— Michael Donaghy
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An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or…
— Jaroslav Pelikan
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be…
— Quentin Crisp
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I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks…
— Leslie Ludy
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
— William Wycherley
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Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing,…
— J C Ryle
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I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time…
— Scott Stapp
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No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and…
— J C Ryle
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Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.
— Owen Feltham
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How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.
— George Gillespie
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Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he…
— Brigham Young
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Live truth instead of professing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it…
— Thomas Paine
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A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the…
— Lysander Spooner
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No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to…
— Ellen G. White
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
— Thomas Huxley
Who Wrote These Professing Quotes
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