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Definition of Religious

Religious

  1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
  2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
  3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
  4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
  5. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.

Religious Quotations

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington
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Religious Translations

religious in Afrikaans is godsdienstig
religious in Dutch is religieus, godsdienstig, gelovig
religious in Italian is religioso
religious in Portuguese is religioso
religious in Spanish is religioso

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