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"Irreverent" Quotes from Famous Books

... vain task to seek anywhere in nature for evidence of Divine action, such that no one could sanely deny it. God will not allow Himself to be caught at the bottom of any man's crucible, or yield Himself to the experiments of gross-minded and irreverent inquirers. The natural, like the supernatural, revelation appeals to the whole of man's mental nature and ...

— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart

... mistake, like me alone, me alone!... Gentlemen, my head aches ..." His brows contracted with pain. "You see, gentlemen, I couldn't bear the look of him, there was something in him ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred, something sneering and irreverent, loathsome, loathsome. But now that he's dead, I ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... Sheffield," he said, "the thing is irreverent, not the manner. It is irreverent to liken your holy mother to the ...

— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... all the Lord needed when He made the world. He made it in six days. Sometimes when I'm out of sorts I wonder if one more week wouldn't have given us a better job.... But there, that's irreverent, isn't it, and off the track besides? Now about this little Bangs man. What ought ...

— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... Sevier County. But these old buildings are becoming exceedingly rare, and soon not one of them will be seen. Their unsightly proportions and rude architecture will not much longer offend modern taste, nor provoke the idle and irreverent sneer of the fastidious and the fashionable. When the last one of these pioneer houses shall have fallen into decay and ruins, the memory of their first occupants will still ...

— Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone • Cecil B. Harley

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