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Letter "P" » professing
«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
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Abolitionist,
Author,
Lecturer,
Slave)
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Keywords:
agitation,
cropped,
crops,
deprecate,
deprecates,
deprecating,
favor,
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ground,
lightning,
like thunder,
plowed,
plowing,
plows,
profess,
professes,
professing,
rain,
struggle,
thunder,
thundered,
thundering
«It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good»
«Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe»
«Live truth instead of professing it.»
«In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; / But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.»
«America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs»
Author: John Adams
(
President)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
accustomed,
customs,
destined,
One Nation,
peopled,
political system,
political systems,
professes,
professing,
social system,
social systems,
tenor,
Tenors
«If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all»
«I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
creed,
Greek,
Greek Church,
Jewish,
professed,
professing,
Protestant,
Protestants,
Protestant Church,
roman,
Roman Church,
the Greek,
Turkish
«It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.»
«But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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About:
Christianity,
Church,
Government
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Keywords:
aggrandize,
aggrandizing,
departed,
elapsed,
engine,
enslaving,
Jewish,
Jewish religion,
perverted,
professed,
professing,
reformer,
servants