Quotes about Sacrilege

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

They took the things from inside the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread them out before the LORD.

carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.

When men are tired of hearing and meditating upon the things of God, the fault lies within; in the background there is greed, and behind that sacrilege, and behind that again profanity. Let us search our hearts, and find whether the things of God have become merely a duty, a weariness, that we would relinquish if we dare, and to which we only hold for the sake of appearances.

In their pursuit of "making disciples of every nation" and baptizing all those within the empire, they stumbled into baptizing the empire itself, thus turning sacrament into sacrilege[...]