Profane Quotes
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The wily lunatic is lost if through the narrowest crack he allows a sane eye to peer into his locked universe and thus profane it (Profane Quotes)
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 was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.) (Profane Quotes)
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, (Profane Quotes)
I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor (Profane Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion (Profane Quotes)
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves (Profane Quotes)
I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor. (Profane Quotes)
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object (Profane Quotes)
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane (Profane Quotes)
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame (Profane Quotes)
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 (Profane Quotes)
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 was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat. ) (Profane Quotes)
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 and despises it (Profane Quotes)
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 (Profane Quotes)
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever (Profane Quotes)
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity (Profane Quotes)
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 (Profane Quotes)
Our holy lives must win a new world's crown, which our profane hours here have thrown down (Profane Quotes)
We should profane the service of the dead to sing a requiem and such rest to her as to peace parted souls (Profane Quotes)
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 (Profane Quotes)
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 (Profane Quotes)
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back (Profane Quotes)
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 flu falls on all constitutions (Profane Quotes)
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious (Profane Quotes)
By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see (Profane Quotes)
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 (Profane Quotes)
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers (Profane Quotes)
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 (Profane Quotes)
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it (Profane Quotes)