We Profess Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given…
— Saint Basil
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to…
— Samuel Wilks
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Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any…
— Dwight L. Moody
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But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose…
— John W. Gardner
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If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will…
— John Owen
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We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must…
— J C Ryle
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of…
— St. Jerome
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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate…
— Socrates
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We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would…
— Jim Elliot
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The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.
— J C Ryle
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We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
— Mary Astell
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Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.
— Viktor Yushchenko
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We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal…
— Benjamin Rush
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We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit,…
— George MacDonald
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
— John W. Gardner
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better…
— William Hazlitt
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When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and…
— Steven Pinker
Who Wrote These We Profess Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 We Profess Quotes as follows: