Quotes About Sacrilege

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

Arrasado el jardín, profanados los cálices y las aras, entraron a caballo los hunos en la biblioteca monástica y rompieron los libros incomprensibles y los vituperaron y los quemaron, acaso temerosos de que las letras encubrieran blasfemias contra su dios, que era una cimitarra de hierro.

Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.

According to Sartre, we are historically prone to thinking of ourselves as objects due to the Judeo-Christian credo that God stamped us with our essence from the beginning; it is His prerogative. So to think that we are able to stamp ourselves is a sacrilege.

pissing on the altar is still a way of paying homage to the Church

I could claim that all my projects are altruistic, but I don't do that. All I'm saying is this: is it really a sacrilege to do the best you can, to express yourself, to do what I do?

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear.

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.

I hope the Jews did kill Christ, I'd do it again in a second.

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

Science alone cannot provide the impetus for changing human conduct. It does not provide a compelling warrant for acknowledging the intrinsic value of life or its sanctity.... If, however, we take our cue from Genesis, damaging creation is tantamount to defacing God's sanctuary, an act of utter sacrilege.

The horns blew, and Jesus came floating out of the damned sky like Magneto to save us all! How did you repay him? You shot him in the fucking face and he hit the ground! He hit that shit harder than Paul Walker driving through a Christmas tree farm! So, yes! Congratulations! You're the Antichrist and your father was a psychic!

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.