Profane Quotes

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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

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

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

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 across the sun.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

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 completely doing away with religious behavior.

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

Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

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

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

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

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

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

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

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

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 tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

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 scientific laboratory.

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.

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

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

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 himself.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

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

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

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

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

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

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.