Quotes About Profess

And here, though it makes an odd sound, yet it is necessary to say, that whoever professes himself a member of the Church of England, ought to believe a God and his providence, together with revealed religion, and the divinity of Christ. For

I'd been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That's what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn't say much, I listened.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

People would more readily believe that the gospel is from heaven if they saw more such effects of it upon the hearts and lives of those who profess it. The world is perhaps better able to read the nature of religion in a man's life than in the Bible.

He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).

O Lord, give us grace not only to be hearers of the word, but also doers of the same; not only to love, but to live Thy gospel; not only to profess, but also to practice Thy blessed commandments, to the honor of Thy holy name. Amen. —THOMAS BECON (c. 1512–1567)

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

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 make us dangerous!

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Americans were those folks who loved to profess peace-loving values, but who fought about everything. Allegedly

True believers in Christ, are we going to follow through and profess Him wherever we go?

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable.

Often have seen a person who professes a profuse love for own mother on social media actually uses her for getting Likes on own facial beauty and/or garnering some publicity only.

I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.

In like manner, the word "know" is frequently used in the New Testament, in the same sense as in the Old Testament. "Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you" (Mat 7:23). "I am the good shepherd and know My sheep and am known of Mine" (Joh 10:14). "If any man love God, the same is known of him" (1Co 8:3). "The Lord knoweth them that are His" (2Ti 2:19).

She knew violence- and my, what a lovely thing to profess knowledge of.

And still greater sin is theirs who profess to know God and to keep his commandments, yet who deny Christ in their character and their daily life. In the light of the Saviour's warning, the fate of Sodom is a solemn admonition, not merely to those who are guilty of outbreaking sin, but to all who are trifling with heaven-sent light and privileges.