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The world's theologyThe world's theology is easy to define. It is the view . . . that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation."Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Romans 1:22 -- James Montgomery Boice
Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard
Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith. -- Stephen Baldwin
How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God. -- George Gillespie
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. -- Taylor Caldwell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world. -- Adoniram Judson
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. -- William Wycherley
Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic. -- Charles Spurgeon
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy. -- John Marshall
I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England! -- Leonard Ravenhill
Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns. -- Owen Feltham
My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things. -- Grover Cleveland
The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.' -- Leonard Ravenhill
I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again. -- Leonard Ravenhill
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance. -- Hugo Black
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. -- Ambrose Bierce
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. -- H. L. Mencken
Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs. -- Michael Donaghy
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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