Profane Quotes

War is a profane thing.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

— Frances McDormand

Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

— Thomas Adams

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

— Lucretius

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

— Seneca the Younger

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

— Richard Pryor

“love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye!”

— Herman Melville

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

“And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.”

— Brian McGreevy

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

— Henry David Thoreau

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

— Ludwig Feuerbach

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That…

— Neale Donald Walsch

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

— Bill Haywood

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

— Paulo Coelho

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

— Mort Sahl

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane.”

— Deepak Chopra

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man…

— George Washington

The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,…

— Edward Gibbon

... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware…

— Frances Wright

Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate,…

— John Calvin

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When…

— Jim Evans

I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious,…

— Jim Goad

On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's…

— Dick Enberg

No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home.…

— David O. McKay

We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,'…

— Florence L. Barclay

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of…

— Victor Hugo

I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man.…

— Anonymous

None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we…

— Ravi Zacharias

“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not…

— Thomas Paine

How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most…

— Mark Helprin

The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army…

— George Washington

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

— St. Jerome

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one…

— Lady Gaga