Profane Quotes

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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests… — George Washington
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black… — Sylvia Plath
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. — Ambrose Bierce
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by… — James E. Faust
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny. — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade
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
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it… — Barbara Mertz
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred — Ludwig Feuerbach
I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to… — Vincent Price
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. — Richard Pryor
Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but… — Thomas Pynchon
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept… — Deepak Chopra
To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in… — Mircea Eliade
The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the… — Donald Miller
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet… — Roger Scruton
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations… — Emile Durkheim

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