There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
“I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image