Quotes About Defile

Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defileThe cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle.

There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives.

Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside.

Then come to me in Bright Defile, he said, where Judgment Day is not a thing that can be delayed for overlong.

Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Self-love is the foulest of all foul feeders, and will defile that it may devour.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

And, you know, we are all in the same keeping. The sea is a glorious great pure thing, you know, that man cannot hurt or defile. It seems to me," said Ethel, looking up, "as if resting there was like being buried in our baptism-tide over again, till the great new birth. It must be the next best place to a churchyard. Anywhere, they are as safe as among the daisies in our own cloister.

Centuries of barbarism, insecurity and war had to intervene before man could defile his God with attributes of undying vengeance and inexhaustible cruelty.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

And, indeed, whereas (as our Saviour tells us) they are things which arise from and come out of the heart that defile us, there is no greater nor more forcible motive to contend against all the defiling actings of sin, which is our mortification, than this, that by the neglect hereof the temple of the Spirit will be defiled, which we are commanded to watch against, under the severe commination of being destroyed for our neglect therein.

Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.