Profane Quotes
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.
Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...
O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.
Holy intimacy is fostered with the marriage to two commitments: one to sitting in quiet solitude with the inner Self
