Profane Quotes

110 quotes by 92 authors

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period — Francis Parker Yockey
How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around… — Thomas S. Monson
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a… — Louis Agassiz
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This… — Walter Benjamin
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports… — Joseph Addison
There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who… — Richard Rohr
How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is… — David Simon
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held… — Vincent of Lerins
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends… — Samuel Johnson
The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Better a holy discord than a profane concord. — Thomas Adams
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which… — Soren Kierkegaard
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their… — Charles Lamb
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities.… — Justin Winsor
When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent… — Betty Sue Flowers
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a… — David O. McKay
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay… — Gordon B. Hinckley
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation… — Spencer W. Kimball
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in… — Mark Helprin

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