Quotes About Profaned

#1. If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.

Christopher West

#2. To find that which is most sacred in this world, look to that which is most violently profaned.

Christopher West

#3. I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.

Emil Cioran

#4. We must be people who love to work; we must love righteousness and walk before the Lord and not be defiled or profaned by evil

Sunday Adelaja

#5. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. The

Karl Marx

#6. Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.

Emile Durkheim

#7. Covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned

Anonymous

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#9. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge ... It is too sacred to be profaned.

Fulton J. Sheen

#11. The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains!

Mark Twain

#12. That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. As I leave the garden
I take with me a renewed view,
And a quiet soul.

Jessica Coupe

#14. Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

Gene Robinson

#15. Listen to what speaks to your heart.

A.D. Posey

#16. I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it.

Chuck Klosterman

#17. My Becca's home.

Jay McLean

#18. When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

Lynn A. Robinson

#19. He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's important and we need to look at it.

Saxby Chambliss

#20. I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

Amitav Ghosh

#21. Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

Vladimir Putin

#22. No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single. It was inevitable ... Thankfully, I proved people wrong.

Billie Piper

#23. I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.

Alanis Morissette

#24. Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red ... But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

Claude Monet

#25. When I was the first time for a job in New York, I saw Natalia Vodianova on an oversized billboard in Times Square on a Calvin Klein billboard.

Lara Stone

#26. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.4

Mark Batterson

#27. Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.

Antonin Sertillanges

#28. If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie's face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.

Wilkie Collins