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profess that having Jesus alone, is all that you need in
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And profess atheism
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Galileo, utterly shocked and offended but not being stupid, did profess his “error,” and thereby escaped months or perhaps years of excruciating torture—a Hell on Earth, ironically to have been skillfully crafted and carried out…by the Church
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who does not profess himself to be of the established church
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„It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied rush to truth in unimportant matters, and refuse to face her where graver issues are at stake
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Such (lofty) ideals neither profess nor encourage the overriding of critical or independent thinking provided such expressions neither conflict with nor seek to negate another individual‘s right to equally express his or her own private opinions or place that individual in HARM‘S WAY
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The secular leaders of the Ychma also presented themselves to profess their allegiance to the new order
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There are so many in our day who profess the name of Christ, "but deny the power thereof"
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25 Without eyes you shall want light, profess not the knowledge therefore that you have not
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6 Neither was it lawful for a man to keep Sabbath Days or ancient fasts, or to profess himself at
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elite group only, but all who profess Jesus and have
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Views such as Singer and others of his persuasion profess may be shocking to many Americans, as well as to many of their fellow scientists, but not to the administrative hierarchy of Princeton University
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I mention these two cases because I read on the Internet that there are those who are of the opinion that Ismael Álvarez cannot govern under that cloud of suspicion, and that he has to resign…though they profess belief in his innocence until found guilty
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The use of English is also wide spread, but 60% of the population speak Spanish and 80% profess the
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deliver what you profess
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Do not accept ‘wilderness years’ as your lot as so many Christians profess today
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“I hope he ain’t about to do some stupid shit like profess his love to that woman
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6 Neither was it lawful for a man to keep Sabbath Days or ancient fasts or to profess himself at all to be a Jew
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How could we profess to hold the truth in our
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1 Let us therefore cleave to them who live in peace and godliness not to them who hypocritically profess to desire peace
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could anyone profess to be doing this, when the ‘upholding’ was
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to profess my amazement, but Ben as well
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“They preach and profess that there is only one God, the father the maker of heaven and Earth
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It was due to the relentless persecution that Eisenbaum came into existence: a place where all the members of the magical world could profess their tasks without restriction
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Do not be fooled by men who profess God and
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profess to help the poor, for the only person they truly are helping is themselves
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Others who profess to speak on his behalf are in
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So those who profess justice should look to
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Those who profess hate are entitled to only hate
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Those who profess fear
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Those who profess love and happiness are entitled to only love and
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Those who profess national defense must learn to accept the fact that there is only one
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Those who profess that they are in fact
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You profess this need to have all things, to master the world, without
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this is not a strike at those who profess to know God, but to some they will consider it that
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Those who profess to know
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who will profess to believe will only do so out of fear
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the wrong teacher, not God but others who profess the knowledge of God
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Those who profess to know God must learn to accept that there are things that have never been
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Those who profess to know these things are incorrect, for the only one
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Those who profess reincarnation may be correct, not in the overall process of
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what God has said but those who profess to speak for God
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Those who continue to profess that the jury is out, need to look
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God wants all of his children not only those who profess their love for him,
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Those who profess to speak for God are wrong
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Those who profess the wisdom of
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profess peace are seen as weak, those who profess God are seen as cowards
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profess their belief in no one must understand that at one time in their lives, they did believe in
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that addresses who you profess to be
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And many of them willingly profess allegiance to him and to God
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At the same time they profess piety and proclaim that the Lord is with them
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What is the real difference between their religion and ours? Why is it we are at such diversity of belief when we all profess to serve the same God?" And when Thomas had finished, Jesus said: "While I would not ignore Peter's question, knowing full well how easy it would be to misunderstand my reasons for avoiding an open clash with the rulers of the Jews at just this time, still it will prove more helpful to all of you if I choose rather to answer Thomas's question
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8 I am not only intrigued by the consummate ideals of this religion of your Master, but I am mightily moved to profess my belief in his announcement that these ideals of spirit realities are attainable; that you and I can enter upon this long and eternal adventure with his assurance of the certainty of our ultimate arrival at the portals of Paradise
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I say to you who profess to be acquiring treasure in heaven: Take lessons from those who make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, and likewise so conduct your lives that you make eternal friendship with the forces of righteousness in order that, when all things earthly fail, you shall be joyfully received into the eternal habitations
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And it should not cause those who profess to be followers of the Christ to be prejudiced against the Jew as a fellow mortal
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We have assailed them only by the denunciation of their spiritual disloyalty to the very truths which they profess to teach and safeguard
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They profess to be awaiting the second coming of Jesus, skipping the imminent return
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Indeed, Darby did publicly teach and profess his eschatological views to the peoples of
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they who profess to love God but whose motivation could be wrong
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It is an insult to intelligence to profess to
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“They always profess
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He would profess not to have: done those things the god abominates, allowed one to hunger, caused one to weep, murdered, caused a man misery, taken food or offerings from the temple, committed adultery, stolen, dammed running water, or
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without illusions which negates everything they profess
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Wisdom and Leadership which many courses profess to teach but
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They seem to think that every man shall be saved by his own law or sect, if he is only sincere; and that one religion is as good as another, if those who profess it are only in earnest
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These are they who profess their inability to understand anything like zeal or earnestness about religion
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And all this time, those who profess to despise the good old fountain can show us nothing whatever to take its place
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But it was a much harder thing for a Jew to profess that he was not content with the ceremonial law of Moses, and that he had found a better priest, and a better sacrifice, even Jesus of Nazareth, and the blood of the cross
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As a general rule, it was not worthwhile for a man to profess Christianity if his heart was not entirely in his profession
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Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle would not have called Christians at all
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Let us, however, thank God that there are not a few to be found in every part of Christendom who really are what they profess to be�true, sincere, earnest-minded, hearty, converted, believing Christians
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It is one of Satan's favourite devices, in order to bring discredit on Christianity, to persuade some unhappy people to profess what they do not really believe
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If we will not confess Christ upon earth, and openly profess that we are His servants, we must not expect that Christ will confess us in heaven at the last day
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(b) In the last place, do you belong to that much smaller class of persons who really profess Christian faith, and Christian obedience, and are trying, however weakly, to follow Christ in the midst of an evil world
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Is any reader of this paper disposed to laugh at religion, because those who profess it decidedly are few in number? Are you secretly inclined to despise those who read their Bibles, and make a conscience of keeping their Sundays holy, and trying to walk closely with God? Are you afraid of making a profession yourself, because you think there will be so few with you and so many against you, and you do not like to be singular, and stand alone? Alas! there have always been many like you! When Noah built the Ark, there were few with him, and many mocked at him; but he was found to be in the right at last
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�Take care what you are doing! Beware of judging vital Christianity by the small number of those who seem to profess it
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The Baptismal Service uses these expressions in the charitable supposition that those who use the Service, and bring their children to be baptized, are really what they profess to be
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"I, Victoria, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof, by any person whatsoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous
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And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation, and without any dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever shall dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning
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we profess to be
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But yet, I do not understand what religion you profess?”
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But when a well-heeled visitor said if only we had a more spacious dwelling, he would’ve loved to put up with us whenever he was in town, she told him that we don’t bite more than we could chew; but how my poor dad used to go out of his way to please all and sundry; it’s as if man massages his own ego by playing host to those who profess closeness
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nized religion, he reasoned it was sheer foolishness to profess that a
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friends, but to be honest I don’t profess to know much about love
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“The Wahabis, now a scattered and a homeless sect, profess doctrines hateful to the well-to-do classes of Muhammadans
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expositions of the Geeta all profess that they represent truth even though
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Not once does he profess that only he is aware of
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Some profess that they are intel-
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You lie first to yourselves and then to all others just as easily as you profess to “care
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Those who profess an ethic of self-responsibility often accept personal credit for the vicissitudes of chance and circumstance, feeling, regardless if advantageous circumstances came their way, even luck is a product of a virtuous work ethic
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We all profess to understand more about love after each lesson taught, but invariably seem to live less of it
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In the heavenly throes of victory, how we treat the losers, as equals or the vanquished, does not witness against the god we profess, but rather is evidence of the god we act
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“We profess we serve a loving god and our money has the motto, 'In God We Trust', printed on it
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True was the saying of God's messenger (cpth) when he said: "the Hour will never overtake people until two great groups combat in a great battle though they profess the same claim"
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To embrace Islam is the full purpose, if they refused that, they had to pay the tribute, otherwise they would be fought until they profess Islam or pay the tribute
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There are accusations of a most unholy alliance between those who profess the faith of our saviour Jesus Christ and the infidels who prostrate themselves before the false god of the Saracen unbelievers
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So as not to hurt the sentiment of people who profess different religions of this world in the present time, the best examples comes from the Greek mythology; strange stories about Gods looking from the heaven and the war of the hydras
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don't profess to hold all the answers to reef aquaria, but I'm willing to learn
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In fact the physical characteristics by which some physicians profess to detect the presence of negro blood are held by other authorities to be valueless
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I don’t profess to know all the reasons that led to these terrible events
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She professed belief, but seldom acted on it and almost never talked of religion, often rolled her eyes when he did
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salvation would come when I professed my crimes (which had been hidden
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By the time he had finished the large mug he was full and, although he professed not to be sleepy he had slept little over the last few days, his slumber light and full of fear
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The demand for philosophy and rhetoric was, for a long time, so small, that the first professed teachers of either could not find constant employment in any one city, but were obliged to travel about from place to place
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It is more difficult to comprehend why Mama sometimes professed not to know whether our cats were toms or tabbies
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Adem was unsure of the age of the Immortal Kings and Queens, though he suspected they were at least many hundreds of years old, by the wisdom in their eyes and the knowledge they professed
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West would be more accurate if he professed to being able to quote Plato quoting Socrates
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In its tenets there is no question of doing good here and being rewarded in the next world, and in this respect, it differs greatly from the lowest forms of Hindoo idolatry, for even the Thugs professed to think they would reap a rich posthumous reward for every victim they secured with the sacred noose and pickaxe of Kali
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With so much animosity existing in the world today, what can any of us hope for when (extreme) ―religious‖ types, professed followers of God‘s teachings, conduct themselves in such an uncharitable manner!
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I could have correctly reminded this gentleman that former president James Earl Carter, who as president, influenced the ideological composition of our nation‘s federal courts, was a professed ―born-again Christian‖, a Baptist, but why trouble ourselves with such ―minor‖ details
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In it the writer confesses he controls a large amount of money which he is willing to share with you! A total stranger who just happen to be that lucky to inherit or be chosen by this important man! But unfortunately he needs your account and a few thousand dollars (or less) to access the money he professed to control
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” Each friend offered points of view toward the proposition that his opinion was the superior way to order one’s life, against a background of a view of values that they professed to have in common
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She, a professed virginal woman, betrothed to a man called Joseph, then carried to term a male-child, whom “she had been instructed to name Jesus
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The anciently professed name for their God-above-all-gods as late as when Abraham’s grandson Joseph was sold into Egyptian servitude was EL as in Melchizedek, Elohim, and Emmanuel as I made reference to in chapters 12 and 13
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Surely there were many who professed their love to you
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professed to have a relationship with
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the Spirit, and the majority of professed Christians
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When questioned by them, Roger and Josie professed ignorance about the meaning of the lights
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In his mind, Josie’s professed lesbianism was just a state of sexual temptation that did not define her, for she was much more than just her sexual conflicts
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“Could it be possible that she was not permitted to remarry because of her professed lesbianism?”, surmised Roger
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He professed himself dissatisfied with all of his efforts, but Alison would not hear of their disposal and gathered them together in a file for later viewing
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She was the one who professed her love for me
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seldom follow the faith professed by their parents
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"You rode that storm at sea?" He professed horror
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My friend professed that Charlie would be able to pay this months rent if we let
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Although uninterested in my origins, they professed themselves delighted to mind my bag while I took a long swim
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In time, there have been many who have professed the faith of God, but one must realize there is
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Jesus Christ professed a
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professed that death is justifiable or that death and hate are acceptable
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professed their love for God will call into question his existence
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God are others who have professed their love for him
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Marcus did not disappoint him; he professed his hatred for his brother and for Baja
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It wasn’t as if he’d professed undying love
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The last I saw of them they were huddled together around a professed book of spells, chanting things aloud and the like
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You who have professed entrance into the kingdom of heaven are altogether too vacillating and indefinite in your teaching conduct
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12 On the morrow about half of these Jewish teachers professed belief in Jesus, and the other half in dismay returned to Jerusalem and their homes
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Jesus indignantly resented the show of forced and outward mourning for Lazarus by some of these professed friends inasmuch as such false sorrow was associated in their hearts with so much bitter enmity toward himself
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4 Jesus spoke the truth when he referred to this lawyer as being "not far from the kingdom," for that very night he went out to the Master's camp near Gethsemane, professed faith in the gospel of the kingdom, and was baptized by Josiah, one of the disciples of Abner
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Long since they ceased to be the spiritual torchbearers of divine truth to the races of mankind, but this constitutes no valid reason why the individual descendants of these long-ago Jews should be made to suffer the persecutions which have been visited upon them by intolerant, unworthy, and bigoted professed followers of Jesus of Nazareth, who was, himself, a Jew by natural birth
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What a shudder of horror passes over the onlooking celestial beings as they behold the professed followers of Jesus indulge themselves in persecuting, harassing, and even murdering the later-day descendants of Peter, Philip, Matthew, and others of the Palestinian Jews who so gloriously yielded up their lives as the first martyrs of the gospel of the heavenly kingdom!
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3 How cruel and unreasoning to compel innocent children to suffer for the sins of their progenitors, misdeeds of which they are wholly ignorant, and for which they could in no way be responsible! And to do such wicked deeds in the name of one who taught his disciples to love even their enemies! It has become necessary, in this recital of the life of Jesus, to portray the manner in which certain of his fellow Jews rejected him and conspired to bring about his ignominious death; but we would warn all who read this narrative that the presentation of such a historical recital in no way justifies the unjust hatred, nor condones the unfair attitude of mind, which so many professed Christians have maintained toward individual Jews for many centuries
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" What a sorry sight for successive generations of the professed followers of Jesus to say, regarding their stewardship of divine truth: "Here, Master, is the truth you committed to us a hundred or a thousand years ago
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The cruel treatment of Jesus by the ignorant servants and the calloused soldiers, the unfair conduct of his trials, and the unfeeling attitude of the professed religious leaders, must not be confused with the fact that Jesus, in patiently submitting to all this suffering and humiliation, was truly doing the will of the Father in Paradise
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If professed believers bear not these fruits of the divine spirit in their lives, they are dead; the Spirit of Truth is not in them; they are useless branches on the living vine, and they soon will be taken away
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The majority of professed Christians of Western civilization are unwittingly actual secularists
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16 The great hope of Urantia lies in the possibility of a new revelation of Jesus with a new and enlarged presentation of his saving message which would spiritually unite in loving service the numerous families of his present-day professed followers
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Do professed Christians fear the exposure of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of social respectability and selfish economic maladjustment? Does institutional Christianity fear the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of traditional ecclesiastical authority if the Jesus of Galilee is reinstated in the minds and souls of mortal men as the ideal of personal religious living? Indeed, the social readjustments, the economic transformations, the moral rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus
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Through oversophistication or as a result of the irreligious conduct of professed religionists, a man, or even a generation of men, may elect to suspend their efforts to discover the God who indwells them; they may fail to progress in and attain the divine revelation
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Jesus always professed the truth
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It would have been possible for him to have met his wife, killed her with absolutely no witnesses in such a desolate area, then continued with his hunt; however, that would require his having known about her afternoon ride, an event of which he had professed having no knowledge, or else having prearranged a meeting place with her for some secret rendezvous under the pretense of an afternoon tryst
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Judge Burns’s voice sounded weak and tired after his business in the capital that had occupied the better part of two weeks and had obviously taken its toll on a man of his years, even though he professed to be in excellent physical condition
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Feltus smiled as he read the brief note laced with dry humour, much like what he would expect from a British gent, which was rather uncharacteristic of this solemn judge who had always professed to stay uninvolved in cases though somehow managed to always add some bit of advice to ongoing investigations
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Even so, Lord Ashburn still professed his innocence in this article and informed him that he had eventually been cleared of all charges
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“Because even then we were planning the assassination of Adolf Hitler!” he professed with a force and vigor that suggested he had just freed himself of a great mental burden while in the process ending the accusations from the spirit
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An authentic believer that puts his assets to the helping of the saints, a man of true internal means, for he lived daily the life that he professed
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But many openly professed Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, and had a thirst for the Word being taught
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His critics argued that he was nothing more than a glorified pimp, and he was a professed enemy of the local Baptist churches (even though one of their ministers and several deacons had been regular customers)
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Yet Hitler still saw hope, or professed he did
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unemployment occurring at the same time was inconceivable: the Phillips curve professed
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She professed she had seen the inside of enough retirement villages to become an advisory to the aged and decrepit, as to where they could spend their final years
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When I see a professed Christian who has sunk into sin – especially of a sexual nature – I think of his foundations
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Skepticism is rarely every professed to those from other beliefs and cultures because those involved have so little understanding of the core and consequence of what they belief
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And not quite the same, but similar to Egyptian belief, kings were professed to derive their authority from the gods and were representatives of the gods on earth
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Moon too, has professed having visions, and chartered the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World
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Centuries later, Albert Schweitzer wisely professed that “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace
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He professed to minister only to the Hebrews (Sons of Israel) and steadfastly refused to heal the Gentiles whom he called "dogs"
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A professed atheist since age 15, thirty-five years later when I invited God into my life and later accepted his son, Jesus as my Lord and Savior he blessed me beyond measure This doesn’t mean my life is perfect, what it mean is that my life is perfectly wonderful
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Now upon this bench we could categorically suggest that this professed standard is the basic grade that would exactly identify out a version of the present kind `Homo Sapiencè
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Now upon this bench we could categorically suggest that this professed standard is the basic grade that would exactly identify out a version of the present kind `Homo Sapience`
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The small band of women passed their novitiate training in relative peace and eventually professed their private vows of charity and humility
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Paul, and professed to be of like mind with that eminent man of God
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But where will you be in that awful day, if you have never professed faith, love, and obedience to that Judge during the time of your life upon earth? How can you possibly expect Him to confess and own you in that hour, if you have been afraid or ashamed to confess Him, and to declare yourself boldly upon His side, while you are upon earth?
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The newly professed monk returned the profession book to its place on the altar, symbolic of Matthew's own self-oblation, and signed and dated the vow formula
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The Abbot next directed his words to one of the professed nuns
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An overriding question stuck in his head: Why hadn’t Hamilton died outside the System? The OWG professed every subject of the Masses would never survive without its help
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Instead, the OWG Doctors professed he was about 35 years old, but he possessed the body of a 20-year-old
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” The lies came out like the OWG truths he professed during his first thirty years
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All otherwise-minded Christians and the supporters of spiritual revival were declared heretics, and subsequently they were pursued and slaughtered all over the Empire, even though early Christians professed the ideology of reincarnation
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But given the changeability of man, my once inimical cousin’s spouse, who had professed his support for me, failed to further my career when he was in a position to do so
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Even though most entrepreneurs professed to have knowledge on accounting and basic bookkeeping, many did not make use of a double-entry bookkeeping system
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hardly, but it was a "term" that I agreed to when I professed my faith and joined my
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indulges in wicked tricks and tactics like the ones he has professed
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spoke of the pain that You feel when we, who have professed to be Christians, do not commit our lives to You
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way of life professed in India of bygone years do offer a remedy to
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closely akin to ancient Indian philosophy and ways of life professed
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Concentric learning, one of the most popularly professed
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eventually lead his Self to the Supreme Spirit, be he a professed Christi-
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ing it (kshetragya) is akin to what has also often been professed by other
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§ That was when the famous British scholar Sir John Godolphin Bennett professed Islam at the hands of him as he (Sir John) went to him to ask him his questions which were difficult for him and for all other scientists and scholars
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With the clear evidence from the prophet(cpth) saying (hadith), when one lady called Umu Hamid Ansaria, the wife of Abi Hamid Saadi, after she professed or embraced Islam and became full of spiritual love of the prophet (cpth) and prayers with him for the sake of God, she told him that: “Oh! The Messenger of God I love performing prayers with you” i
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Though he professed that he had no plans for vengeance, a gold light circled his eyes
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” a NuFaith professed to being non-contrarian as she sat opposite him at the fingertip of the west arm
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” Faith confessed, professed and defended herself
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That was when the famous British scholar Sir John Godolphin Bennett professed Islam at the hands of him as he (Sir John) went to him to ask him his questions which were difficult for him and for all other scientists and scholars
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That is, they believe a conspiracy is real and act in such a way that their activities create the professed conspiracy
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” Noel challenged her professed hindrance
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” I'munity looked at the many heads of the democratic nations, which almost all nations and states now professed to be, and
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Lopez professes to be the only ‘Absolutely Organic’ spraying/pest specialist in the United States (at this time, even though he expects more to come out), pointing out that
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He also professes hopes of expanding his club internationally noting that
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The bank of Amsterdam professes to lend out no part of what is deposited with it, but for every guilder for which it gives credit in its books, to keep in its repositories the value of a guilder either in money or bullion
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If he professes himself to be of any other, indeed, the law obliges him to leave the canton
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Obama, however, who professes to care so deeply for the poor, merely sat back while the Democrat Congress defunded the program in 2009
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Benson continued, “For all the love he professes for his players, he makes decisions for one reason and one reason only
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13 He professes to have the knowledge of God, and he calls himself the child of the Lord
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” Janay professes but Torin gently removes her arms from around his neck
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“Are he and this god he professes, somehow connected with what we’ve been seeing over the last few days?” asked Rimmon
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“Are he and this god he professes, somehow connected with what we've been seeing over the
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Courage is the confidence of thoroughgoing honesty about those things which one professes to believe
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" He has definitely claimed divinity; he professes to be in partnership with God
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professes that investors take all information into consideration when making a decision,
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Each hears sermons, and professes himself a Christian
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Satan learns from God then professes to teach others with authority but no morality can be found on his authority
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Domestic violence is very tragic because it is perpetrated by the person who professes love
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Although he isn’t able to respond in kind, Antonio feels far more than he would like when the lovely Andie professes her love for him
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It is much more difficult to know how to teach a woman to not want to always impose her will and her power on the man she professes to love
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The reason for Africans hair texture is an absurd rationalization in the earlier Mormon doctrine, which professes that Africans’ “horrific” grade of hair is a curse, (impossible for it to be a blessing since it would exclude them in the blessing)
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Unfortunately every religious book professes nothing but truth
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The Law of Attraction also professes that the energy that is contained in all abstractions are in a continuous state of vibration
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professes her belief that Jesus is the Son of god and her
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No one can be frightened into Heaven, or get to Heaven by believing Satan’s lie; if a hypocrite professes to be a Christian others will see his or her lack of love and faith and be turned from Christ
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In the earlier ages men readily believed in ghosts and demons; in our day a man who professes such a faith has to fight a battle, and to render a severe account of his intellectual state to his contemporaries
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Nature knows nothing of a God who makes little of broken law, directly the breaker of it discovers that he is in trouble, or even professes to be sorry for his offence
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"That is what I want," said Sancho; "and what I would know, and have you tell me, without adding or leaving out anything, but telling the whole truth as one expects it to be told, and as it is told, by all who profess arms, as your worship professes them, under the title of knights-errant-"
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"It is a science," said Don Quixote, "that comprehends in itself all or most of the sciences in the world, for he who professes it must be a jurist, and must know the rules of justice, distributive and equitable, so as to give to each one what belongs to him and is due to him
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He must be a theologian, so as to be able to give a clear and distinctive reason for the Christian faith he professes, wherever it may be asked of him
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Of all these qualities, great and small, is a true knight-errant made up; judge then, Senor Don Lorenzo, whether it be a contemptible science which the knight who studies and professes it has to learn, and whether it may not compare with the very loftiest that are taught in the schools
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" As they set out upon their excursion the placard attracted the eyes of all who chanced to see him, and as they read out, "This is Don Quixote of La Mancha," Don Quixote was amazed to see how many people gazed at him, called him by his name, and recognised him, and turning to Don Antonio, who rode at his side, he observed to him, "Great are the privileges knight-errantry involves, for it makes him who professes it known and famous in every region of the earth; see, Don Antonio, even the very boys of this city know me without ever having seen me
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If you are only twice and not thrice removed from the truth--not an imitator or an image-maker, please to inform us what good you have ever done to mankind? Is there any city which professes to have received laws from you, as Sicily and Italy have from Charondas, Sparta from Lycurgus, Athens from Solon? Or was any war ever carried on by your counsels? or is any invention attributed to you, as there is to Thales and Anacharsis? Or is there any Homeric way of life, such as the Pythagorean was, in which you instructed men, and which is called after you? 'No, indeed; and Creophylus (Flesh-child) was even more unfortunate in his breeding than he was in his name, if, as tradition says, Homer in his lifetime was allowed by him and his other friends to starve
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Why, my good friend, I said, how can any one answer who knows, and says that he knows, just nothing; and who, even if he has some faint notions of his own, is told by a man of authority not to utter them? The natural thing is, that the speaker should be some one like yourself who professes to know and can tell what he knows
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“I’m here with one of the key organizers of the Doomsday Group rally, though the group professes to have no leader
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“I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,—‘I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do
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But he will not tell you why he does not act in conformity to the commands of the religion that he professes
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It was all very well for a man who never saw any men of another faith than his own to believe that his own faith was the correct one; but a thinking man need only come in contact, as he now does all the time, with equally good and equally bad men of various denominations, which condemn the doctrines of one another, in order to lose faith in the truth of the religion which he professes
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He knows that all the habits in which he is brought up, and the deprivation of which would be a torment for him, can be gratified only by the painful, often perilous labour of oppressed working men, that is, by the most palpable, coarse violation of those principles of Christianity, humanitarianism, justice, and even science (I mean the demands of political economy), which he professes
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He professes the principles of brotherhood, humanitarianism, justice, science, and yet lives in such a way that he needs that oppression of the labouring men which he denies, and even in such a way that his whole life is an exploitation of this oppression, and not only does he live in this way, but also he directs his activity to the maintenance of this order of things, which is directly opposed to everything in which he believes
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A man marries or gets a divorce, educates his children, even professes a faith (in many states) in accordance with the law
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And so, it would seem, it is indispensable for the Christian humanity of our time to renounce the pagan forms of life, which it condemns, and to build up its life on the Christian foundations, which it professes
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A man of our time, whether he professes the divinity of Christ or not, cannot help but know that to take part, whether as a king, a minister, a governor, or a rural officer, in the sale of a poor family's last cow for taxes, with which to pay for cannon or the salaries and pensions of luxuriating, idle, and harmful officials; or to have a share in putting the provider of a family into prison, because we ourselves have corrupted him, and let his family go a-begging; or to take part in the plunders and murders of war; or to help substitute savage and idolatrous superstitions for Christ's law; or to detain a trespassing cow of a man who has no land of his own; or to deduct a sum from the wages of a factory hand for an article which he accidentally ruined; or to extort a double price from a poor fellow, only because he is in need,—a man of our time cannot help but know that all these things are disgraceful and execrable, and that they should not be done
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Suddenly a peasant refuses in Khárkov to perform this office, explaining his refusal by this, that, according to the Christian law which he professes, he cannot bind, lock up, and lead a man from one place to another
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Every church professes to derive its creed by an unbroken tradition from Christ and the apostles
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Every so-called heresy which claims that what it professes is the actual truth, may likewise find in the history of the Church a consistent explanation of the faith it professes, and apply all the arguments to its own use
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The man who, from a lower plane, lives up to the doctrine he professes, ever advancing toward perfection, leads a higher life than one who may perhaps stand on a superior plane of morality, but who is making no progress toward perfection
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This consciousness of one's self as a son of God, whose essence is love, satisfies at once all those demands made by the man who professes the social life-conception for a broader sphere of love
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If this were a world where God had ordained masters and slaves, rich and poor, it would be wrong for the working-man or the poor man to wish himself in the place of the rich: but this is not so; he wishes it in a world which professes the doctrine of the gospel, whose first principle is embodied in the relation of the son to the Father, and consequently of fraternity and equality
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He knows that the habits of life in which he has been bred, and whose abandonment would cause him much discomfort, can only be supported by the weary and often suicidal labor of the down-trodden working-class—that is, by the open infraction of those principles of Christianity, humanity, justice, and even of science (political science), in which he professes to believe
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Or there lives a manufacturer, whose whole income consists of the pay which is taken away from the workmen, and whose whole activity is based on compulsory, unnatural labour, which ruins whole generations of men; it would seem to be obvious that first of all, if this man professes any Christian or liberal principles, he must stop ruining human lives for the sake of his profit
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Therefore at the present time every man who professes it helps to undermine the authority of the government, and will eventually pave the way for the liberation of mankind
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; but some peasant in Charkov refuses to fulfil this duty, because, as he says in explanation of his refusal, the law of Christ, which he professes, forbids him to arrest, imprison, or transport his fellow-men
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He constantly dwells upon what Christianity and the condition of a Christian ought to be, without for a moment dwelling on the thought that Christianity is precisely what he professes, and that he himself personifies the condition of a Christian
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Actually, they are, for the most part, kindly, gentle, tender-hearted men, who abhor any kind of cruelty, to say nothing of killing or torturing; moreover, every one of them professes Christianity, and considers violence perpetrated against the defenseless a contemptible and shameful act
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And therefore it is necessary for a society in which works of art arise and are supported, to find out whether all that professes to be art is really art; whether (as is presupposed in our society) all that which is art is good; and whether it is important and worth those sacrifices which it necessitates
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" This work has attained such enormous importance in our time, and has such influence on all that now professes to be art, that it is necessary for every one to-day to have some idea of it
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), and that such a church is, in the first place, one that professes the Nicene creed, and, secondly, one which, after the division of the churches, refused to recognize the authority of the Pope and the new dogmas
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It professes that common sense is the scientific method
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The educated man of our day has but to reflect ever so little on what will be the outcome of those views of the world which he professes, in order to convince himself that the estimate of good and bad, by which, by virtue of his inertia, he is guided in life, directly contradict his views of the world
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"According to all principles, according to all I know, and what everyone professes," the workman says to himself
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The workingmen and the poor would be wrong if they tried to do so in a world in which slaves and masters were regarded as different species created by God; but they are living in a world which professes the faith of the Gospel, that all are alike sons of God, and so brothers and equal
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A man marries and is divorced, educates his children, and even (in many countries) professes his religious faith in accordance with the law
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But who are these evil-disposed persons in our midst from whose attacks we are preserved by the state and its army? Even if, three or four centuries ago, when men prided themselves on their warlike prowess, when killing men was considered an heroic achievement, there were such persons; we know very well that there are no such persons now, that we do not nowadays carry or use firearms, but everyone professes humane principles and feels sympathy for his fellows, and wants nothing more than we all do—that is, to be left in peace to enjoy his existence undisturbed
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It would seem obvious that if this man professes any Christian or liberal principles, he must first of all give up ruining human lives for his own profit
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I cannot too often call the attention of the House to this fact, on which I am compelled to dwell and dilate to get rid of this merciless motion, which kills while it professes to cure
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It professes to oppose (in form, at least) the injustice of foreign Governments
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The gentleman, at the same time, professes the utmost regard and respect for Mr
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In his letter of the 17th of May, to the Secretary of State, speaking of the order, he says, "the note is couched in terms of restraint, and professes to extend the blockade further than it has heretofore done, nevertheless it takes it from many ports already blockaded, indeed all east of Ostend and west of the Seine, except in articles contraband of war and enemy's property, which are seizable without blockade; and in like form of exception, considering every enemy as one power, it admits the trade of neutrals within the same limits to be free, in the productions of enemy's colonies, in every but the direct route between the colony and parent country
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Speaker, I do not oppose this bill because it professes to give some relief to those merchants whose vessels sailed before the date of the proclamation, and which may have departed from a British port, prior to the 2d of February, 1811, but, sir, because I wish to rid the country of this whole consumptive system; and, if that cannot be done, I will not aid in propping up the President's proclamation, by taking from the judiciary of the country the power of deciding on its validity, which is one of the avowed objects of this bill
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Many of our vessels were seized, carried into port, and condemned by a tribunal, which, while it professes to respect the law of nations, obeys the mandate of its own Government in opposition to all law
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Sweden also professes sentiments favorable to the subsisting harmony
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Miller's descriptions is not admitted, we believe, by those who are familiar with the ground he professes to have gone over
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Without, then, considering the principles it involves, I reject this bill, because it is not in fact what it professes to be; it is not a restrictive measure; its provisions may operate prejudicially on ourselves, but cannot affect the enemy
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Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting
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the one professes to relent at the inconvenience she occasions you, and the other in addition to depredation and conflagration, treats you with the greatest disdain, 8;
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bill is not what it professes to be, 719;
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Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have not professed their faith may by constituted life members without the privilege of voting
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propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works
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He wanted no thanks for these services, professing only that old Ted should enjoy his moment in the limelight, safe in the knowledge that, like himself and his plums, old Ted would have a new flower named after him
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services, professing only that old Ted should enjoy his moment in
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Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things
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Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
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I hear professing Christians say that it is not up to
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race of professing Christians are among the most
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Álvarez resigned immediately without prodding, while professing his innocence and vowing to pursue the case to the Spanish Supreme Court
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The Collegian Associate City Editor wrote a column decrying the police report as an insult to students, professing outrage at the easy use of the word “Communist”, and giving credit to “thinkers… who want nothing to do with war and those who represent it”
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The account given us by an eminent primitive writer Clemens Alexandrinus ought not to be overlooked; that as James was led to the place of martyrdom his accuser was brought to repent of his conduct by the apostle's extraordinary courage and undauntedness and fell down at his feet to request his pardon professing himself a Christian and resolving that James should not receive the crown of martyrdom alone
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Scotland professing that the meridian should run through the Great Pyramid
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I'm professing that I'm weak
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After mutually professing our fondness, we began with mutual interrogations:
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professing their love of God, by destroying those things that God holds true, is wrong
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professing their love of God, by killing one another is wrong, by professing their love of God, by
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the False Professing Church
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Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
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Professing themselves to be wise, they
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Professing them selves
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live a spiritual life, rather than merely professing one
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Sure, a few thousand dollars to provide for Spot’s care over the next 15 years is a huge incentive – big enough to have all kinds of people professing their love and admiration for your friend in fur
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The final words professing his love for his wife struck a distant chord in his mind and heart, creating an eerie feeling that left him intensely uncomfortable
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In truth; I am special, not for my abilities, but my availability, not for the way I could capture the attention of a crowd, but for the quietness of hearing His voice and speaking it, not for my strength for protecting Him, but the strength of professing Him, not for gift of healing folks, but for the knowledge of getting out of the way and letting the Healer heal
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Defying convention, he even managed to state the blatantly obvious truths that others rejected in favor of fantasy: professing that the measure of good and evil was pleasure and pain, and that happiness was the pinnacle of life
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Now, are there many professing Christians like Agrippa? I fear there is only one answer to that question
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Millions in every age have been admitted into the Church by baptism, and begun life as professing Christians, and then, on coming to man's estate, have turned their back altogether on Christ and Christianity
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Surely it is wiser to cling to Christ and Christianity, with all its alleged difficulties, than to launch on an ocean of uncertainties, and travel towards the grave hopeless, comfortless, and professing to know nothing at all about the unseen world
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I believe, then, that for three centuries there has not been an age in which it has been so needful to urge professing Christians to "hold fast" as it is at this time
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I SUPPOSE that most professing Christians are acquainted with the text at the head of this page
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But if these things are true, and no one can be saved without regeneration, are there not many professing Christians who are in a very dangerous position? Are not those who are without the marks of being "born again" in imminent peril of being lost forever?
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That after professing to love Charlotte for so long, he suddenly dared to have a new focus in his life when he should be concerned with mourning
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only knew it was another of her neighbors because it wore a placard professing – NuFaith's Neighbor
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Many professing Christian teachers, claiming inspiration from God, were advocating the right to free participation in heathen immoralities
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“When a culture esteems certain virtues, it is often professing that it lacks these virtues and therefore they are highly valued and prized
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The gods and goddesses stood up from their thrones, but unlike the day before, when they had eagerly gathered around her professing their gifts, none but Aphrodite approached her and Than
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Never from a man who was holding her tightly in his arms, and professing that he cared for her in spite of… and because of the fact that she was a murderess
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They had three weeks to steal many moments alone, professing their love both spiritually and physically, neither knowing or suspecting that my grandparents had already arranged legally binding marriages for both my mother and her twin sister, my Aunt Madeliane; my mother to Bethanie’s father and my aunt to Joshua
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I'm told you caused a spectacular uproar by rejecting the affections of Count Marcus Canossa and professing your undying love and devotion for Adrian Connor
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There have been a number of men professing to be the
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As Kurt was professing his love for Darci, she was walking into the parking lot, looking for the RV
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Many of those professing Christ openly are government spies and agents who want to trap underground Church members
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The professing church is filled with worldliness
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The fucking POINT is… when you put the words together: Princep’s statement seems to express the muddled illogical thinking of an ignorant young boy who had swallowed a certain political dogma, and was merely repeating what he had been taught… and was belatedly professing his naïve innocence of the realization of the consequences of his own actions
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In the thousands of denominations around the world professing to be Christian there are countless views on what Hell is, where Hell is, who is over Hell, how long will Hell last, many others, with many others views of what Hell is in the non-Christian religions of the world
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’ But who can seriously believe that when He was professing to 'cast out the spirits by His word,’ and to address as personal beings the demons whom He expelled, He was all the while talking to 'Oriental figures,’ to 'metaphors for disease and lunacy,’ and that He voluntarily deceived both His disciples and the multitude? It is, at all events, clear that Christ believed in the devil and his angels, and believed Himself sent by God to overthrow 'the kingdom of darkness;’ and this goes a great way towards establishing the truth of the doctrine
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Modern critics are agreed that the Sadducees, properly speaking, were a priestly and aristocratic party, professing to 'stand upon the old ways,’ to adhere closely to the Mosaic law, taken in its most literal and limited sense, to reject tradition, and that 'oral law’ of unwritten explications and additions, which their opponents the Pharisees made the rule of all their thought and action
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It is not for the polytheists to attend God's places of worship while professing their disbelief
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Thereupon they pray to God, professing sincere devotion to Him: "If You save us from this, we will be among the appreciative
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Based upon the ever-moving story of the martyrdom of Socrates, and professing to detail the arguments for the immortality of the soul, on which he rested his hope of a life to come; on the day of his judicial death by poison, the Phaedon was as well known among the reading population of the Macedonian and Roman empires as any tragedy of Shakespeare is known among English readers
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If there are those also who, while professing to be fellow-laborers in this enterprise, yet allow the public to think that they have discovered the nullity of our Savior's awful warnings of woe in the 'furnace of fire’—or who destroy their effect by making them the subject of controversy in a spirit of vain jangling, they must bear the burden of their own immense responsibility
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It is held by large numbers to form an insuperable objection to the Scriptural doctrine, that it comes professing to be a supernatural and thaumaturgic revelation
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As soon as this occurred to him he ran with all speed to Rocinante who was grazing at large, and taking the bridle and the buckler from the saddle-bow, he had him bridled in an instant, and calling to Sancho for his sword he mounted Rocinante, braced his buckler on his arm, and in a loud voice exclaimed to those who stood by, "Now, noble company, ye shall see how important it is that there should be knights in the world professing the of knight-errantry; now, I say, ye shall see, by the deliverance of that worthy lady who is borne captive there, whether knights-errant deserve to be held in estimation," and so saying he brought his legs to bear on Rocinante--for he had no spurs--and at a full canter (for in all this veracious history we never read of Rocinante fairly galloping) set off to encounter the penitents, though the curate, the canon, and the barber ran to prevent him
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"How writers, professing to be friends to freedom, and the improvement of morals, can assert that poverty is no evil, I cannot imagine
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The cause of all this, Socrates, was indicated by us at the beginning of the argument, when my brother and I told you how astonished we were to find that of all the professing panegyrists of justice--beginning with the ancient heroes of whom any memorial has been preserved to us, and ending with the men of our own time--no one has ever blamed injustice or praised justice except with a view to the glories, honours, and benefits which flow from them
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“There is nothing wrong with two unmarried people professing their love for
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But Duncan declined the charge, professing his readiness to serve as a volunteer by the side of the scout
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Then, having heartily denounced all those who - as he put it - `refused' to believe, he proceeded to ridicule those half-and-half believers, who, while professing to believe the Bible, rejected the doctrine of Hell
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They were always complaining of their wretched circumstances, and found a certain kind of pleasure in listening to the tirades of the Socialists against the existing social conditions, and professing their concurrence with many of the sentiments expressed, and a desire to bring about a better state of affairs
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Although professing diametrically opposite principles from those of the editor of the other paper, Beauchamp—as it sometimes, we may say often, happens—was his intimate friend
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—Needs! Mr Bloom ejaculated, professing not the least surprise at the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he invariably does
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While professing a mild agnosticism himself he had a liking for the shows of religion and was perfectly agreeable to having his children brought up Catholic; he believed, however in the prudent restriction of his family to two boys and a girl, comfortably, spaced over twelve years, and did not demand, as a Catholic husband might, yearly pregnancies
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The pitiable lot is that of the man who could not call himself a martyr even though he were to persuade himself that the men who stoned him were but ugly passions incarnate—who knows that he is stoned, not for professing the Right, but for not being the man he professed to be
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recurrence—for recurrence we took for granted—I should get used to my danger, distinctly professing that my personal exposure had suddenly become the least of my discomforts
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So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit upon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer
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During that twenty-year period an immense number of fields were left untilled, houses were burned, trade changed its direction, millions of men migrated, were impoverished, or were enriched, and millions of Christian men professing the law of love of their fellows slew one another
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Rushworth was eager to assure her ladyship of his acquiescence, and tried to make out something complimentary; but, between his submission to her taste, and his having always intended the same himself, with the superadded objects of professing attention to the comfort of ladies in general, and of insinuating that there was one only whom he was anxious to please, he grew puzzled, and Edmund was glad to put an end to his speech by a proposal of wine
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Grant, professing an indisposition, for which he had little credit with his fair sister-in-law, could not spare his wife
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A woman married only six months ago; a man professing himself devoted, even engaged to another; that other her near relation; the whole family, both families connected as they were by tie upon tie; all friends, all intimate together! It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of! yet her judgment told her it was so
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One was professing to have seen the Martians
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" Notwithstanding his special acuteness and ability, he is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect—what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in America to-day with regard to slavery, but ventures, or is driven, to make some such desperate answer as the following, while professing to speak absolutely, and as a private man—from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred? "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery exists are to regulate it is for their own consideration, under their responsibility to their constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and justice, and to God
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Am I unjust, indeed, in saying that he is typical of many modern fathers? Alas! many of them only differ in not openly professing such cynicism, for they are better educated, more cultured, but their philosophy is essentially the same as his
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The men of science regard as Christianity only what the different churches have been professing, and, assuming that these professions exhaust the whole significance of Christianity, they recognize it as a religious teaching which has outlived its time
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2) For people professing filiality to God, not to rejoice in life, to yearn, is a dreadful sin, an error
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But who among us are these evil men, from the violence and attacks of whom the state and its army save us? If three, four centuries ago, when men boasted of their military art and their accoutrements, when it was considered a virtue to kill men, there existed such men, there are none now, for no men of the present time use or carry weapons, and all, professing the rules of philanthropy and of compassion for their neighbours, wish the same as we,—the possibility of a calm and peaceful life
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If formerly, in the days of Rome, in the Middle Ages, it happened that a Christian, professing his teaching, refused to take part in sacrifices, to worship the emperors and gods, or in the Middle Ages refused to worship the images, to recognize the papal power, these refusals were, in the first place, accidental; a man might have been put to the necessity of professing his faith, and he might have lived a life without being placed in this necessity
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It was so with the Pharisees, and the same may be said of our professing Christians
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All these men are either Christians or men professing humanitarianism and liberalism, who know that they participate in the most imbecile, aimless, and cruel murders; yet still they go on committing them
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If in the days of ancient Rome it happened that a Christian, professing his faith, refused to take a part in sacrifices, or in the worship of the emperors or the gods, or in the Middle Ages refused to worship ikons or to acknowledge the temporal authority of the Pope, such refusals were the exception; a man might be obliged to confess to his faith, but he might perhaps live all his life without being forced to do so
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Patriotism could have some sense in the ancient world, when every nation, more or less homogeneous in its structure, professing one and the same state religion, and submitting to the same unlimited power of its supreme, deified ruler, appeared to itself as an island in the ocean of the barbarians, which ever threatened to inundate it
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In the south of France a community of men called the Hinschist has recently been established (my information is derived from the Peace Herald of July, 1891), who, as professing the Christian doctrine, refuse to perform military duty
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Indeed, we need only recall what it is we are professing, as Christians, and simply as men of our time, we need but recall those moral bases which guide us in our public, domestic, and private life, and that position in which we have placed ourselves in the name of patriotism, in order that we may see what degree of contradiction we have reached between our consciousness and that which among us, thanks to the intensified influence of the government in this respect, is regarded as our public opinion
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Our system of life has reached the limit of misery, and cannot be ameliorated by any pagan reorganization—All our life, with its pagan institutions, is devoid of meaning—Are we obeying the will of God in maintaining our present privileges and obligations?—We are in this position, not because such is the law of the universe, that it is inevitable, but because we wish it, because it is advantageous for some of us—All our consciousness contradicts this, and our deliverance consists in acknowledging the Christian truth, not to do to one's neighbor that which one would not have done to one's self—As our obligations in regard to ourselves should be subordinate to our obligations to others, so in like manner our obligations to others should be subordinate to our obligations to God—Deliverance from our position consists, if not in giving up our position and its rights at once, at least in acknowledging our guilt, and neither lying nor trying to justify ourselves—The true significance of our life consists in knowing and professing the truth, whereas our approval of, and our activity in, the service of the State takes all meaning from life—God demands that we serve Him, that is, that we seek to establish the greatest degree of union among all human beings, which union is possible only in truth
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A man's freedom does not consist in a faculty of acting independently of his environment and the various influences it brings to bear upon his life, but in his power to become, through recognizing and professing the truth that has been revealed to him, a free and willing laborer at the eternal and infinite work performed by God and his universe; or, in shutting his eyes to truth, to become a slave and be forced against his will into a way in which he is loath to go
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And it is only because of other miserable and erring men like yourself that you have become a soldier, an emperor, a landowner, a capitalist, a priest, or a general; that you commit evil deeds so obviously contrary to the dictates of your heart and reason; that you torture, rob, and murder men, establishing your life on their sufferings; and that, above all, instead of performing your paramount duty of acknowledging and professing the truth which is known to you, you pretend not to know it, concealing it from yourself and others, doing the very opposite of what you have been called to do
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With such a definition as this, the difficulty of identifying a church which is united by love with a church professing the Nicene creed, and the accuracy of Photius, as Homiakov would have it, is still greater
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And so, amid all the multitude of the idle plays of thought of the men professing the so-called science, there presents itself an assertion equally devoid of novelty, and equally arbitrary and erroneous, to the effect that living beings, i
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I am the same kind of a man as everybody else; and if I am in any wise distinguished from the average man of our circle, it is chiefly in this respect, that I, more than the average man, have served and winked at the false doctrine of our world; I have received more approbation from men professing the prevailing doctrine: and therefore, more than others, have I become depraved, and wandered from the path
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So, then, we have on one side men calling themselves Christians, and professing the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and along with that ready, in the name of liberty, to submit to the most slavish degradation; in the name of equality, to accept the crudest, most senseless division of men by externals merely into higher and lower classes, allies and enemies; and, in the name of fraternity, ready to murder their brothers
89.
If they had been fanatics, professing some peculiar belief, it might have been possible, in disproving the superstitious errors mixed in with their religion, to attack also the truth they advocate