Quotes About Professing

#1. Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

William Wycherley

#2. Most religious people use their religion as a source of good advice, and the good advice only condemns them when they fail. This mistake is even made by professing Christians,

Douglas Wilson

#3. Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.

Stephen Baldwin

#4. Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Bertrand Russell

#5. If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you.

Autumn Doughton

#6. Professing to believe has, sadly, played a large role in the practice of religion. It has profoundly stained our understanding of what religion is. Some people seem to profess belief in God "just in case" there is a God. But they neither are committed to nor believe in the idea that God exists.

Dallas Willard

#7. Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.

Brene Brown

#8. Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.

Dallas Willard

#9. We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

J.C. Ryle

#10. There ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.

John Stuart Mill

#11. It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam ...

Shenica N. Coleman

#12. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. 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 see if God can be glorified by the union.

Ellen G. White

#14. Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

#15. The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

Leonard Ravenhill

#16. Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

Michael Donaghy

#17. He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

Dejan Stojanovic

#18. Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

Robert Jeffress

#19. How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

George Gillespie

#20. When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.
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John C. Maxwell

#21. Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Taylor Caldwell

#22. There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#23. Judge not lest ye be judged" has become the battle cry not only for biblically illiterate secularists, but for professing evangelicals as well. Postmodern hypersensitivity is not a malady merely for unbelievers; Christians are downright allergic to judging.

Todd Friel

#24. To countless thousands, even among those professing to be Christians, the God of the Scriptures is quite unknown.

Arthur W. Pink

#25. There is a greater difference between the genuine Christian and the deceived professing Christian than there is between a living man and a corpse. None need remain in doubt if they will honestly measure themselves by the Holy Word of God.

Arthur W. Pink

#26. In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

Simone Weil

#27. Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

Charles Spurgeon

#28. A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

Lynn Coady

#29. Friend is the worst word you can hear when professing your love to someone.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#30. All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#31. Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

David Rakoff

#32. America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

John Adams

#33. I became a slightly daft traveler, obsessed with beekeeping and professing to know all there was to know on the topic. I started arguments so others would correct me and speak of beekeepers they had known.

Robin Hobb

#34. 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

#35. After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

Adoniram Judson

#36. The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the moral courage to do what they will say they will do when they're running for election.

Colonel Tom Parker

#37. 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 the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.

Leslie Ludy

#38. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance.

Hugo Black

#39. 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 in his thoughts.

Dwight L. Moody

#40. 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 preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

Quentin Crisp

#41. Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

J.C. Ryle

#42. Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.

Louie Giglio

#43. 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 to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

Scott Stapp

#44. Millions of professing Christians are deceived; they are walking in ways that simply are not biblical. Their values, their responses, their relation ships, their choices, and their priorities reveal that they have bought into the lie of the Enemy and embraced the world's way of thinking.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#45. 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 unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#46. There are so many professing Christians who are walking hand in hand with the world that you cannot tell the difference between the Christian and the unbeliever. This should never be.

Billy Graham

#47. The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

Leonard Ravenhill

#48. they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ROM1.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Anonymous

#49. I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

Leonard Ravenhill

#50. Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#51. 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 blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.

Charles Spurgeon

#52. A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

Lysander Spooner

#53. Something is mighty wrong with our priorities when professing Christian men joke about their wives, joke about their children, and joke about God, but fight to the death over their favorite sports team.

Doug Phillips

#54. Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

Owen Feltham

#55. Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus, but have no regard for the divine law.

Ray Comfort

#56. Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Charles Spurgeon

#57. The depth and complexity and ugliness and danger of sin in professing Christians is either minimized - since we are already justified - or psychologized as a symptom of woundedness rather than corruption.

John Owen

#58. 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

#59. The fact is that far too many professing Christians live their lives, day in and day out, on the basis of something other than the Bible.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#60. Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'

Miroslav Volf

#61. No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

John Marshall

#62. The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

H.L. Mencken

#63. Let it be the one business of my life to glorify Thee by every word of my tongue, by every work of my hand, by professing Thy truth, and by engaging all men, so far as in me lies, to glorify and love Thee.

Barbara Hughes

#64. My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

Grover Cleveland

#65. Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#66. what still more shocking outrages were perpetrated upon his mind! with all his noble powers and sublime aspirations, how like a brute was he treated, even by those professing to have the same mind in them that was in Christ Jesus! to what dreadful liabilities was he continually subjected!

Frederick Douglass

#67. Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Robert Rainy

#68. 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 he does not believe.

Thomas Paine

#69. I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

Leonard Ravenhill