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Of all the dark catalogue of sins, there is not one more vile
and execrable than profaneness. It commonly does, and loves
to, cluster with other sins; and he who can look up and insult
his Maker to his face, needs but little improvement in guilt to
make him a finished devil.
S. H. Cox
Profanity is both an unreasonable and an unmanly sin, a
violation alike of good taste and good morals; an offense
against both man and God. Some sins are productive of
temporary profit or pleasure; but profaneness is productive of
nothing unless it be shame on earth, and damnation in hell. It
is the most gratuitous of all kinds of wickedness a sort of
peppercorn acknowledgment of the sovereignty of the devil over
those who indulge it.
Tryon Edwards
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing
is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it.
Washington
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity or
their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he
catches without any bait or reward.
Horace Mann
Swearing is properly a superfluity of haughtiness, and can only
be considered as a sort of peppercorn sent, in acknowledgment
of the devil's right of superiority.
Robert Hall
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no
gentleman. I care not what his stamp may be in society, or
what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. Despite all
his refinement, the light and habitual taking of God's name in
vain, betrays a coarse and brutal will.
E. H. Chapin
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