For working priests and for people in religion she held a sacred regard.
Sending for a priest that he might have the last comforts of religion she comforted him with womanly tenderness until he died.
To the child, nourished on sacred things, religion was as bread and meat.
Many are published for the purpose of upholding false religion and wicked principles, and which, consequently, do great mischief to those who read them.
Yes, Josephine, I think you are right, and that, after all, religion is better than ridicule.
Capuchin Church, and on the 31st March, when he blessed the people, I trembled on the edge of conviction and religious faith, and was only held back by my inability to distinguish between religion and the Church system.
He now completely lost his faith, not in Christianity only, but in naturalreligion as well.
He had but little talent for languages, but his conversation onreligion was sometimes very charming; and at other times he broke out into most indecent discourses.
How persons contaminated and vicious could be missionaries of civilization and religion was something possible only in the logic of Henry Clay.
With hypocrisy in the practice of the Christian religion there ceased to be any patience whatsoever, as was shown by the treatment accorded a Y.
In Article III Walker considered "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of the Religion of Jesus Christ.
I found the Christian religionand slavery growing under the same authority and cultivation.
If all men were Christians, and all Christians lived up to the religion they professed, there would be little to complain of, even in this imperfect world.
Some others, it is true, believed in a god who was more or less Supreme; but they always associated with him a number of lesser deities which really turned their religion into Polytheism.
We therefore conclude, on reviewing the whole chapter, that the origin of the Jewish religion was confirmed by miracles.
A religion which has reigned so long, and over the most civilised nations, must of necessity have had some influence for good or evil.
In the first place, we must consider the immense difficulties of founding such a religion as Christianity.
We decide, therefore, that the history of the Jewish Religionwas confirmed by miracles.
Moreover, a certain amount of dogmatism in matters of Religion seems essential.
And it should be noticed that Natural Religion and Natural Science are alike in this respect--they are both founded on inferences drawn from the observed facts of nature.
And as the religion did not originate in either Rome or Asia Minor, Christians were presumably as numerous elsewhere.
Now it seems hard to exaggerate either the immense difficulties the religion had to overcome, or its marvellous success in overcoming them.
And this was only natural, for the Christian religion spread rapidly, and St. Luke himself shows us what its converts were taught.
We therefore decide in this chapter that the history of the Jewish religion was confirmed by prophecies.
For religion of some kind is, and always has been, practically universal; and nearly all important religions have rested on real or pretended revelations from God, and have been accepted in consequence.
And the effect of the Religion being thus unique, makes it probable that its cause was unique also; in other words, that it was Divinely revealed.
Law and religion forbid the banns on the ground of propinquity or consanguinity; society steps in to separate classes; and in all this most critical matter, has common sense, has wisdom, never a word to say?
About as much religion as my William likes," in short, that is what is necessary to make a happy couple of any William and his spouse.
His Brahmoism was but a spiritual form of the religion taught by the Hindu Sastras.
This Religion of Love and Sacrifice became a part and parcel of Chitta Ranjan's life.
He loves this country as it gives shelter to his poor brethren whom his religion has taught him to look upon as incarnations of Narayana.
And yet few things connected with our holy religion have been more frequently subjected to ridicule than her ceremonies.
The religion instituted by Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is more spiritual than that of the Old Law.
Thus the Reformed religion was established in Scotland, and Knox settled in St. Giles's for the remainder of his life.
Only it has to be said at the end of all, thatreligion had little part in the woes of Mary.
For the bishops feared that if the King had met with King Henry that he would have moved him to casten down the abbeys, and to have altered the religion as the King of England had done before.
Rotten eggs and stones are bad arguments either inreligion or metaphysics, but not so violently bad as fire and flame.
The new-comers were Christians, and were ready enough to teach their religion if only the black man would learn it.
But the white man brought rum as well as religion, and the rum was impressive, though the religion was not.
The original religion of the natives, if we can give it that name, consisted in a dim belief of a future state, quite undefined even in their own minds.
Their religion seems to be a sort of demon worship.
Some curious anecdotes are produced, to shew the great respect some among them entertained for religion and for morality.
It was as if the discovery of America had changed the religion of the Spaniards from Christianity to the worship of gold with human sacrifices.
I used to believe everything I heard the evangelist say, but I don't think no more that religion is what it's cracked up to be.
They accused the church of not doing its duty toward them, and they declared that organized religionwas a sham and a hypocrisy.
I am old-fashioned enough to believe in the supreme efficacy of organized religion in relation to womanhood, and all that pertains to womanhood.
But they referred their models of fictitious heroism to the existing standard of moral approbation; a rule, which, if it generally falls short of what reason and religion prescribe, is always beyond the average tenor of human conduct.
The common original and common destination of mankind, with every other lesson of equality which religion supplies to humble or to console, were displayed with coarse and glaring features in these representations.
But it was also so managed as to loosen the bonds of religion and pervert the standard of morality.
Beyond every doubt, the evils of superstition in the middle ages, though separately considered very serious, are not to be weighed against the benefits of the religion with which they were so mingled.
It is not, however, from religion simply that we have derived this advantage, but from religion as it was modified in the dark ages.
In the midst of the banquet a pageant was introduced, representing the calamitous state of religion in consequence of the recent capture of Constantinople.
While religion had thus lost almost every quality that renders it conducive to the good order of society, the control of human law was still less efficacious.
It is easy to infer the degradation of society during the dark ages from the state of religion and police.
We feel, too, as if the appeal of religion to us were made to our own active good-will, as if evidence might be forever withheld from us unless we met the hypothesis half-way.
So proceeding, we see, first, that religionoffers itself as a momentous option.
The second affirmation of religionis that we are better off even now if we believe her first affirmation to be true.
And now, in turning to what religion may have to say to the question, I come to what is the soul of my discourse.
Religion involves belief in an unseen extension of the world, 51.
Secondly, religion is a forced option, so far as that good goes.
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
Science says things are; morality says some things are better than other things; and religion says essentially two things.
To recognise the true religion we must inquire into, not one, but all; and in any question whatsoever we have no right to condemn unheard.
Show me what you can add to the duties of the natural law, for the glory of God, for the good of mankind, and for my own welfare; and what virtue you will get from the new form of religion which does not result from mine.
It is in matters of religion more than in anything else that prejudice is triumphant.
In the first place, when you teach religion to little girls never make it gloomy or tiresome, never make it a task or a duty, and therefore never give them anything to learn by heart, not even their prayers.
As a woman's conduct is controlled by public opinion, so is herreligion ruled by authority.
Were that religion false, the docility which leads mother and daughter to submit to nature's laws would blot out the sin of error in the sight of God.
The neglect of all religion soon leads to the neglect of a man's duties.
There is no religion which imposes such strict duties upon married life, and none in which such a sacred engagement is so often profaned.
Let those who will, teach a religionmore sublime, but this is the only religion I know.
Are those who make a trade of religion religious people?
Had they listened only to what God says in the heart of man, there would have been but one religion upon earth.
Loose morals bring religion into contempt; the terrors of remorse make it a tyrant; this is why women have always too much or too little religion.
It hardly seems probable that it ever will be, for it is still a question of politics with some and of religion with many.
Shun discussion on two points,--religion and politics.
It isn't a question ofreligion or religious beliefs.
I believe in Brother Joseph's religion which he said was a key that would save every man or woman, and that it is for every man to mind his own business and let other people's business alone.
His religionwas deeply rooted and nurtured by association with and testimony of an eye witness to the living God.
Ficino composed his commentary to Plato’s Banquet and his book on the Christian religion in Italian also.
A careful collection of Ficino’s opinions, especially on religion and particularly from his letters.
When properly applied, they take away whatever support a wicked institution has found by leaning upon the Church; at the same time they award to consistent Christians what is due to them by the religion of Jesus.
Hence there is no legal objection to the measure which religionherself ordains.
Religion sanctions them; for they restore her own institutions.
Still we fear that extension most; for religion teaches us to fear God more than man.
Way back in 1634, a company of Catholic pilgrims came to America to found a colony where their religion would not be interfered with.
He was generous enough not to limit his colony to one religion or nationality.
I am sent to thee by my chief, to convert thee from the false religion that thou followest and to lead thee to the path of the true faith.
Yet Phoenicia and Palestine will forever live in the memory of mankind; since America, as well as Europe, has received letters from the one, and religion from the other.
But the influence of religion was far more powerful to inflame, than to moderate, the fierce passions of the Germans.
The attachment of the Roman troops to their standards was inspired by the united influence of religion and of honor.
They still enjoyed the comfort of making frequent and devout visits to the Holy City, and the hope of being one day restored to those seats which both nature and religion taught them to love as well as to revere.
James, admitting as argument that the cause of the reformed religion had suffered by the prohibition, gave his "good people of Lancashire" leave to resume them.
The king was baptized, and Christianity became the state religion of the northern Angles.
In an establishment where religion and patriotism were both so warmly cherished, the first thought of every one was to do his utmost to aid France in her struggle against the foreigner.
Religion alone makes their position tolerable; religion, binding together both the superior and the inferior classes in divine love.
Confusion of principles in politics and religion is accompanied by an analogous overturning of morals, of art, and of literature.
He has duties to a state which professes to be Christian, but adopts a schismatical or heretical perversion of Christianity as the religion of the state.
Why have they suffered the rights and interests of religion to be sacrificed to the falsely supposed rights and interests of the secular order?
Protestantism in its essential principle is a revolt against catholicity, and the subjection ofreligion to the national will.
How, then, can it be their religion any more than it is the religion of Catholics?
Christian as he was a far-seeing statesman, when about to reduce chaotic France to order and decency, found it necessary first to restore religion and recall her exiled priesthood.
The exclusion of any class of citizens from a participation in the benefits of our government, on account of religion or previous nationality, never has had, and is never likely to have, the countenance of the people of this country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
