Use "professed" in a sentence

1. 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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2. salvation would come when I professed my crimes (which had been hidden

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3. 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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4. 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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5. It is more difficult to comprehend why Mama sometimes professed not to know whether our cats were toms or tabbies

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6. 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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7. West would be more accurate if he professed to being able to quote Plato quoting Socrates

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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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

11. 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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12. ” 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. Surely there were many who professed their love to you

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16. professed to have a relationship with

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17. the Spirit, and the majority of professed Christians

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18. When questioned by them, Roger and Josie professed ignorance about the meaning of the lights

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19. 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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20. “Could it be possible that she was not permitted to remarry because of her professed lesbianism?”, surmised Roger

21. 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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22. She was the one who professed her love for me

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23. seldom follow the faith professed by their parents

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24. "You rode that storm at sea?" He professed horror

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25. My friend professed that Charlie would be able to pay this months rent if we let

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26. Although uninterested in my origins, they professed themselves delighted to mind my bag while I took a long swim

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27. In time, there have been many who have professed the faith of God, but one must realize there is

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28. Jesus Christ professed a

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29. professed that death is justifiable or that death and hate are acceptable

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30. professed their love for God will call into question his existence

31. God are others who have professed their love for him

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32. Marcus did not disappoint him; he professed his hatred for his brother and for Baja

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33. It wasn’t as if he’d professed undying love

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34. 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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35. You who have professed entrance into the kingdom of heaven are altogether too vacillating and indefinite in your teaching conduct

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36. 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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37. 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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38. 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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39. 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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40. 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!

41. 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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42. " 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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43. 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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44. 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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45. The majority of professed Christians of Western civilization are unwittingly actual secularists

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46. 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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47. 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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48. 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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49. Jesus always professed the truth

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50. 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

51. 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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52. 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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53. 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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54. “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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55. 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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56. But many openly professed Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, and had a thirst for the Word being taught

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57. 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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58. Yet Hitler still saw hope, or professed he did

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59. unemployment occurring at the same time was inconceivable: the Phillips curve professed

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60. 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

61. 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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62. 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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63. 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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64. Moon too, has professed having visions, and chartered the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World

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65. 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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66. 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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67. 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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68. 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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69. 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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70. The small band of women passed their novitiate training in relative peace and eventually professed their private vows of charity and humility

71. Paul, and professed to be of like mind with that eminent man of God

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72. 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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73. 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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74. The Abbot next directed his words to one of the professed nuns

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75. 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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76. 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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77. ” The lies came out like the OWG truths he professed during his first thirty years

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78. 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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79. 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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80. Even though most entrepreneurs professed to have knowledge on accounting and basic bookkeeping, many did not make use of a double-entry bookkeeping system

81. hardly, but it was a "term" that I agreed to when I professed my faith and joined my

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82. indulges in wicked tricks and tactics like the ones he has professed

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83. 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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84. way of life professed in India of bygone years do offer a remedy to

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85. closely akin to ancient Indian philosophy and ways of life professed

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86. Concentric learning, one of the most popularly professed

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87. eventually lead his Self to the Supreme Spirit, be he a professed Christi-

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88. ing it (kshetragya) is akin to what has also often been professed by other

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89. § 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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90. 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

91. Though he professed that he had no plans for vengeance, a gold light circled his eyes

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92. ” a NuFaith professed to being non-contrarian as she sat opposite him at the fingertip of the west arm

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93. ” Faith confessed, professed and defended herself

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94. 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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95. 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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96. ” Noel challenged her professed hindrance

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97. ” 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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