11 Professed Quotes for You to Enjoy

When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music. Ellen G. White

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

Student Never Anything Average Professed

The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy. H. R. McMaster

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When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration. Marvin Ammori

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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint. Adam Cohen

History Commitment Conservative Restraint Judicial Justices Standing Professed

History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored into their design, but at other times, it's a result of thoughtless omissions. Hannah Fry

History Result Sometimes Power Design Other Thoughtless Examples Objects Deliberately Inventions Purpose Beyond Times Littered Professed

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. Charles Eastman

I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love. Hari Kunzru

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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. Robert Rainy

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