Eugene H. Peterson

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

American Clergyman

Chico Buarque

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

Brazilian Musician

Jerome Richardson

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

American Musician

Jo Brand

I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.

British Comedian

Henry Miller

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

American Author

Use 'sacrilege' to express a severe lack of respect towards what is sacred to a culture or religion.

Sacred Respect

'Sacrilege' can be used figuratively to refer to disrespecting something highly valued, not only religious.

Figurative Use

The word 'sacrilege' often carries a strong emotional weight and indicates deep offense.

Strong Emotions

 for me which I thought was kind of sacrilege because I was out it was dead silent it was just so beautiful so I was rowing around Punchbowl lake and I was had come to this spot in the middle you know the afternoon I said would be a good place to shoot and then I rode back to the lean-to because it was kind of

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 man without my headscarf and on my period sacrilege too many but I delight to me in corner and Polaski was another moving moment in my life when Muslim women and men from around the world launched a movement called misawa which is a it's

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 had been taken to Babylon. Belshazzar, his son, decides to have a feast. And in order to make it even more exciting, he added a bit of sacrilege to the rest of the fun, and he brings out the temple vessels.