“ Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing. ”
- William A. Ward- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification. ”
- Carl Henry- Copy
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“ The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. ”
- Corra May Harris- Copy
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“ God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ”
- John Quincy Adams- Copy
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“ The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. ”
- Corra Harris- Copy
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“ The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. ”
- Corra May Harris- Copy
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“ Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please — that is, as they please or displease us. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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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 things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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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 due laws-of-war, named "fair competition" and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ From our point of view, however, any interpretation of Genesis which accommodates the standard system of evolutionary geological ages is a clear-cut compromise with atheistic evolution, and it is very sad that Christians who profess to believe the Bible as the Word of God will not acknowledge this. ”
- Henry Morris- Copy
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“ I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. ”
- Saint Patrick- Copy
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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 consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle… ”
- Frederick Douglas- Copy
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“ It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them. And, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ”
- Thomas De Quincey- Copy
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