Quotation Explorer - 'Profess'

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess. - Shannon L. Alder
Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so many profess to believe in and follow. - - Jason Neville Versey
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005] - Philip Pullman
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Americans were folks who loved to profess peace-loving values, but who fought about everything. - Rinker Buck
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
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.
It is not enough to profess the word of God; we must partake in good deeds. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do. - Nathaniel Branden
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. - Corra Harris
Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are. - Shannon L. Alder
The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard. - Shannon L. Alder