395 Verbs to Use for the Word religion

And if a priesthood should arise hereafter, whose calling was to teach not religion but irreligion, not the good news that there is a good God, and that we can know Him; but the bad news that there is no God, or, if there is, we cannot know Him; then would that priesthood find it necessary to appeal like all other priesthoods, to the women, and to teach them how to teach their children.

" "But it couldn't be; no Catholic could change her religion or make herself Protestant.

Head-hunting is not a pretty game; nor is scalping and mutilation the most generous treatment of a fallen foe; yet war has seen worse things done by those who professed an ethical religion.

You mean persons who have got so much religion that they have no room for any thing else?" "I shall mourn to my dying day, that you were not brought up to the sea!

If you will embrace our religion, we will give you food.

The people, with traditional docility, had liberally adopted the religion of their rulers, and the Moslems now formed the great majority of the population.

The proposition is this: the artist needs no religion beyond his work.

It must be a partnership between equals each respecting the religion of the other.

Within its walls both the Counts Egmont and Hoorn spent the last night before their execution, in 1567, by the hirelings of the Duke of Alva, the Spanish Philip II's tyrannical governor of the Netherlands, who, by means of the sword and the Inquisition, sought to establish the Catholic religion in those countries.

It was now Neifile's turn to tell a story, and she said that as there had been much controversy at Florence during the plague concerning religion, this had put her in mind of the tale of Melchizedeck.

In truth, Mr. Laing is in a perfectly childish state of mind both as regards the Christian religion and as regards philosophy, sciences, and all the subjects he dabbles with.

* Yet in this strife, this natural remorse, If we could bend the force of power and wit To work upon the heart, and make divorce There from the evil which preventeth it, In judgment of the truth we should not doubt Good life would find a good religion out.

There, thanks to the Shah's two Christian wives, he had a good reception; the rank of Prince was conferred upon him, and he won the concession, for all Christians, of the right, not only to trade freely, but to practise their religion in Persia.

But my tribe beat me and punished me in other ways until I gave up the white man's religion and followed the juju religion of the tribe.

During the vacation of 1729 he had a serious illness (ante, i. 63), which most likely was 'the sickness that brought religion back.' See ante, i. 93, 164, and post, under Dec. 2, 1784.

But my tribe beat me and punished me in other ways until I gave up the white man's religion and followed the juju religion of the tribe.

HÚSHENG It is recorded that Húsheng was the first who brought out fire from stone, and from that circumstance he founded the religion of the Fire-worshippers, calling the flame which was produced, the Light of the Divinity.

But my young friend stood his ground well, and maintained the Christian religion.

Mohammed never pretended to preach a new religion; he demanded in the name of Allah the same Islâm (submission) that Moses, Jesus, and former prophets had demanded of their nations.

Though an impostor, he propagated a religion, which, like the elevated and divine principles of Christianity, was confined to no one nation or country; but even embraced a larger portion of the human race than Christianity itself.

those who have experienced religion, if you would keep vital religion in a country.

But it is not my purpose to discuss the religion of the Jews in this connection, since it is treated in other volumes of this series, and since everybody has access to the Bible, the earlier portions of which give the true account not only of the Hebrews and their special progenitor Abraham, but of the origin of the earth and of mankind; and most intelligent persons are familiar with its details.

After the coming of the Moors into Malabar, they insinuated themselves so much into the confidence of the before-mentioned king, that he became a convert to their law, renouncing the religion of his country, and embracing Mahometism with such zeal, that he resolved to go and end his days in the temple of Mecca.

He rebelled against the authority of the Pope, without abjuring the Roman Catholic religion, either as to dogmas or forms.

Then they all like to talk sentimenttheir religion is a feeling.

395 Verbs to Use for the Word  religion