Sacred Profane Quotes

I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the last few years is Qawwali music. If you listen to a Qawwali singer like Aziz Mian - he's like James Brown. Qawwali is like Pakistani gospel-jazz. It's emotional, but it's also improvised, and it's all about that sacred-and-profane tightrope.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified … for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.

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

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.

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

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.