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.
I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!
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.
Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance.
How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.
Live truth instead of professing it.
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.
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.
Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.
Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.
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.
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!
The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers. '
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.
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.
