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Love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye! — Herman Melville

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. — Francis Parker Yockey

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

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

Out in this profane city,
sometimes sidewalks
seem the only cement that connects us,
pressed by the sacred strangers
we will never touch. — B.J. Ward

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. — Thomas Pynchon

I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. — Horace

Young man, there are some things in the world so profane that their only real value is in not knowing about them. — Richard Kadrey

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

A beast sacred and profane bore him north, with a beautiful, terrifying woman, to defend a city wonderful in its horrors. — Max Gladstone

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

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — Henry Van Dyke

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

Don't profane yourself, or the Biodag Dubh.
Oh, Mary Ann. Me and the Beedak Doo are just fine. — Kendare Blake

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If nothing is holy, nothing is profane. — Dennis Prager

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

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

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. — Isaac Newton

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

What is sacred to one is profane to another. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Andrew Dice Clay

The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak. — Paula Malcomson

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. — Theodor Adorno

Better a holy discord than a profane concord. — Thomas Adams

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. — John Milton

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

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

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

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

What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ... — John Geddes

The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences. — Rene Guenon

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary. — John Patrick Hickey

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor. — Mort Sahl

Every profane word Gray had ever heard, read, uttered, or invented spewed forth from his mouth. — Tessa Dare

And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane. — Brian McGreevy

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

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. — Frank Schaeffer

Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ. — Thomas S. Monson

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. — Henry David Thoreau

All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane. — St. Jerome

There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

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

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane. — David Mitchell

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. — Neale Donald Walsch

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

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

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. — Saint Ignatius

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred. — Paulo Coelho

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

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. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

War is a profane thing. — Norman Schwarzkopf

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson