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We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess. -- Mary Astell
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. -- Rachel Kushner
I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist. -- Ray Comfort
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. -- Mark Rothko
How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being? -- Phylicia Rashad
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. -- John W. Gardner
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -- Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -- Frederick Douglass
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' -- Noam Chomsky
No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority. -- Lysander Spooner
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. -- Eric Alterman
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. -- David Bowie
I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path. -- Elian Gonzalez
If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something. -- Steve Harvey
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. -- Alice Walker
For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E. -- Matthew McConaughey
Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more. -- George Muller
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
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization. -- J. G. Stedman
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin. -- Sheri L. Dew
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. 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
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. -- William Wilberforce
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish. -- Simon Schama
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. -- Steven Pinker
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed. -- Saint Basil
We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets. -- David Sedaris
My only policy is to profess evil and do good. -- George Bernard Shaw
No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity. -- Pierre Bayle
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. -- Louis Nizer
Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything -- Eric Stoltz
I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best. -- William Shakespeare
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. -- Francis Bacon
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. -- George D. Prentice
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me. -- Agatha Christie
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. -- Bill Vaughan
Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives. -- J. C. Ryle
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense. -- Emily Dickinson
Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do. -- Nathaniel Branden
Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess. -- Shannon L. Alder
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers. -- George Bernard Shaw
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it. -- Ella T. Grasso
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. -- Ashwin Sanghi
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe. -- Dallas Willard
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. -- Corra May Harris
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. -- Corra May Harris
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power. -- Alexander Lowen
No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith. -- Sathya Sai Baba
the Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ... -- Erica Jong
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas -- H. L. Mencken
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in. -- Sean Brady
Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all. -- J. C. Ryle
The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them. -- Zadie Smith
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. -- Charles Spurgeon
The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold. -- John Stuart Mill
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God. -- Philip Pullman
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. -- Benjamin Franklin
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear? -- J. C. Ryle
In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness. -- Andrew Murray
We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose. -- Viktor Yushchenko
If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way. -- J. C. Ryle
I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac. -- Jean-Francois Cope
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
Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing. -- William Arthur Ward
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. -- Washington Irving
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire. -- Pope Pius IX
For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see. -- Haruki Murakami
... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. -- Douglas Hurd
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove. -- George Eliot
All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble. -- J. C. Ryle
No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers. -- Marcus Garvey
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature. -- William Harvey
I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position. -- Joy Behar
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. -- Henry David Thoreau
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction. -- Aaron Allston
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours. -- Jane Austen
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. -- Pope Pius IX
We cry for the hand of God to bring us salvation, but then we seize the voice of God and use it to profess our destructive nature. -- J.M. Campos
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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! -- Jim Elliot
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. -- Douglas Hurd
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. -- John Hanning Speke
I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love. -- William Shakespeare
Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ. -- Justin Martyr
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers? -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe! -- Thomas B. Macaulay
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows. -- William Shakespeare
Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart! -- William Shakespeare
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. -- William Henry Ashley
What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress. -- William Arthur Ward
May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart. -- Ashoka
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves. -- Dallas Willard
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! -- Joseph Hall
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. -- Norman Douglas
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it. -- Henry Van Dyke
While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice. -- Daniel Pauly
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity. -- St. Jerome
I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it. -- Scarlett Johansson
I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have. -- Bill Reid
Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold. -- Tommy Douglas
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. -- Thomas Paine
God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason. -- Matthew Tindal
Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does. -- Jessica Zafra
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion. -- Samuel Johnson
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth. -- Leo Tolstoy
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated. -- Howard Nemerov
Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be. -- John Tillotson
We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all. -- George W. Bush

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