Professes Quotes

#1. Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Samuel Johnson

#2. This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation," [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.

Mark Sundeen

#3. My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith.

Ibn Arabi

#4. We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

James Anthony Froude

#5. It is requisite that we should here say something of Magick, which is so linked to Astrology, as being her near Kinswoman, that whoever professes Magick without Astrology, does nothing, but is altogether out of the way.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

#6. The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

Charles Kingsley

#7. Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?

Henry Rollins

#8. That so-called faith in Christ which professes to release men from the obligation of obedience to God, is not faith, but presumption. "By grace are ye saved through faith." But "faith, if it hath not works, is dead." Ephesians 2:8; James 2:17.

Ellen G. White

#9. Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.

R.D. Laing

#11. Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

George Washington

#12. Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

John Stuart Mill

#13. Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

Piers Anthony

#14. Whenever a man is about to stab true religion, he usually professes very great reverence for it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

Maurice Blanchot

#16. Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil. When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of the devil.

Pope Francis

#17. No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.

Booker T. Washington

#18. Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

Bob Beauprez

#19. The biblical math could not be simpler; if a person who professes to be a Christian lives like the devil, he is of the devil.

Todd Friel

#20. After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.

Norman Macbeth

#21. Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Charles Caleb Colton

#22. The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson

#23. The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness
your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture ... He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Mark Twain

#24. How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

Wes Fesler

#25. Ed Lukowich professes, 'If indeed Black Holes have amazingly built and are presently in control of our cosmos, then an awareness of how black holes have accomplished these incredible feats brings us many steps closer to understanding the reason behind our universe and for our existence within it.

Ed Lukowich

#26. Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion - and not only a capacity, for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion.

Billy Graham

#27. Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

Kevin DeYoung

#28. This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Charles Dickens

#29. A higher power does exist. The forces of day-to-day reality seem to take hold and become the truth for you, yet truth is not seen with the eyes or heard with the ears. It is felt as the peace in your heart and professes itself with health and well being.

Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

#30. A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

Denise Mina

#31. The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

Confucius

#32. 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.

Stephen Baldwin

#33. He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

William Hazlitt

#34. Zen professes
itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all
religions and philosophies,

D.T. Suzuki

#35. In all matters but particularly in architecture ... that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles ... One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#36. Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Lord Acton

#37. His hand stilled on her hair and he said, very carefully and calmly, "There is never any excuse for a man to hit a woman - any woman - let alone one he professes to love." She was quiet a moment, just basking in his gentle strength.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#38. Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.

Francis Quarles

#39. The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

Bertrand Russell

#40. Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#41. Love promises happily ever after, it boldly professes forever - but delivers only one thing - a reckless brand of hope.

Addison Moore

#42. All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love
nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

Blaise Pascal

#43. The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Alfred Marshall

#44. Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

Charles Caleb Colton