Profane Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Profane Religion Superstitions Worship Worship god
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger 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. Swearing is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.... — James Madison Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred. — Paulo Coelho 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 understand that… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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 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 the God… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
