Professed Quotes

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.