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.
If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.
How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?
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.
The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.
Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.
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.
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
