Top 181 Profane Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I'm a really big fan of hip-hop, and I can listen to it before the game, but I'm not that into a lot of profane music.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.
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.
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.
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
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.
Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
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.
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
Better a holy discord than a profane concord.
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred
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.
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
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.
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
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.
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
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.
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.
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
War is a profane thing.
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
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.
Through your love
existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
becomes sacred again.
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.
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.
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.)
I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.
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.
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
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.
