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Sentences starting with religion

Religion springs from them, the family order rests upon them, and in every community each act involving a relation between any two of its members implies the recognition or the denial of a sentiment. [6]
Religion treated from the economic side, you know, the effect of lack of nutrition on character. [9]
Religion the motive power of art, and art, too, service. [9]
Religion had apparently irrevocably lost that warrant also, and thinking men not spiritually inclined, since they had to make a choice between science and religion, took science as being the more honest, the more certain. [9]
Religion was not free. [5]
Religion might offer charms to the weak. [9]
Religion and government appear to me the two subjects which of all others should belong to the common talk of people who enjoy the blessings of freedom. [6]
Religion of humanity! [4]

Sentences ending with religion

You're false to your womanhood an' true to your religion. [13]
I shall read with him and walk with him, and I shall grow to think like him a little --in everything except religion. [11]
That 's exactly what you want in religion. [6]
The Hetaira Phryne was summoned before the judges for an offence against religion. [10]
Some said it was because she would soon become a mother, en' others said she was pinin' after the new religion. [13]
So I am very glad to have your thoughts called to the subject of religion. [6]
I have been used, from an early period of my life, to hear the discussion of grave questions, both in politics and religion. [6]
He said he understood, business interruptions and all that, some men were well enough without, but as for him he never neglected the ordinances of religion. [5]
This error impedes true religion. [5]
She must be tried by priests for crimes against religion. [5]

Short sentences using religion

And I took to religion. [9]
Hypocrisy is fatal to religion. [5]
I've been thinking of religion. [4]
He had called it religion. [9]
Her religion came in waves. [9]
I'm an agnostic--except in religion. [4]
Why, religion was her life! [5]
Now George Benton experienced religion. [5]
It is almost a religion. [11]
It's--it's their religion. [9]

Sentences containing religion two or more times

Ah, that religion was not religion, for religion was a spiritual, not a material affair. [9]
As I continued to read these works, I found them suffused with religion, religion of a kind and quality I had not imagined. [9]
We were glad to have seen that land which had an enlightened religion with future eternal rewards and punishment in it, while even Israel's religion contained no promise of a hereafter. [5]
St. Paul, once the strict Pharisee who had laboured for the religion of works, himself had been reborn into the religion of the Spirit. [9]
Why didn't that religion that she seemed outwardly to profess and accept without qualification--the religion he taught set her at rest? [9]
In the nurseries of old-fashioned Orthodoxy there was one religion in the world,--one religion, and a multitude of detestable, literally damnable impositions, believed in by uncounted millions, who were doomed to perdition for so believing. [6]
But the question is again a twofold one: firstly..." But suddenly Helene, who was getting bored, said with one of her bewitching smiles: "But I think that having espoused the true religion I cannot be bound by what a false religion laid upon me. [2]
Her religion made her inwardly content and joyous; and if she was troubled at times, and showed the pain of it in her face and bearing, it came of distress for her country; no part of it was chargeable to her religion. [5]
No religion that did not fill the needs of both was a true religion. [9]
These laws required certain things of him which his religion might forbid: then his religion must yield--the laws could not be relaxed to accommodate religions or anything else. [5]

More example sentences with the word religion in them

Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
First you know you'll get religion, too. [5]
We will chasten you with bread and water; and it were well for you, even by your strange religion, to qualify for passage from this world. [11]
I will give you the cause, the religion you need. [9]
Didn't I tell you that _you_ couldn't enter unless your religion, whatever it might be, was your own free property? [5]
Her religion, which you once disliked so much, I will venture you now prize most highly. [7]
For thousands of years this clan have dwelt in Shechem under strict tabu, and having little commerce or fellowship with their fellow men of any religion or nationality. [5]
His religion seemed woven all of austerity, contained no shining threads to catch my eye. [9]
If you're doing work you like, that you've got an interest in, and that's some use, you don't need religion (she pauses). [9]
Hodder read every word of these, and all were in the same strain: at last they could perceive a meaning to religion, an application of it to such plodding lives as theirs . [9]
He had wrestled with the Lord in prayer; he had been a class-leader and a lay-preacher; he had exhorted and denounced; he had pleaded and proscribed; yet never in all his days of professed religion had a heart for others really moved Joel Mazarine. [11]
The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
There's no reason why religion oughtn't to be fun, is there? [9]
Friendship, love, religion, whatever will set her nature at work. [6]
No one knew what Lindau's religion was, and in default they had had the Anglican burial service read over him; it seems so often the refuge of the homeless dead. [8]
These men present were Catholics, and held religion in superstitious respect, however far from practising its precepts. [11]
The steps are well worn, and must have been trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. [4]
Thus as the weeks rolled on Washington grew up, into an imposing lion once more, but a lion that roamed the peaceful fields of religion and temperance, and revisited the glittering domain of fashion no more. [5]
O yes, poets we shall have, mythology, symbols, religion of our own. [6]
I doubt if we have more practical freedom in America than they have in England,---I said.--An Englishman thinks as he likes in religion and politics. [6]
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? [6]
Senator Dilworthy says, we are bound to extend our religion over the isles of the sea. [5]
In religion he was a fanatic; he was a demented fanatic now. [11]
Perhaps the experience was a damage to him; and it is a pity that there was no one to explain that religion for a little fellow like him is not a "scheme. [4]
But his religion was a central habit, followed as mechanically as his appetite or the folding of his master's clothes. [11]
What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension. [5]
And oh, I want so much to believe unreservedly what you expressed so finely, that religion is democracy, or the motive power behind democracy--the service of humanity by the reborn. [9]
And on this voyage I was reminded of Josiah Royce's splendid summary of the American philosophy--of the American religion as set forth by William James: "The spirit of the frontiers-man, of the gold-seeker or the home-builder transferred to the metaphysical or to the religious realm. [9]
This will breed vacillation and uncertainty in its opinions about religion, and politics, and business, and sweethearts, and everything, and will undermine its principles, and rot them away, and make the poor thing characterless, and its success in life impossible. [5]
You think--or you used to think--that your religion made this life heaven. [13]
He had been used to the Catholic religion in Ireland; he had seen it in France, Spain, Italy and elsewhere; but here was something essentially primitive, archaically touching and convincing. [11]
But of what use were such riches as his when his religion and morality compelled him to banish from him all the joys in the power of riches to bring? [9]
Religion, as yet unidentified, is the force behind these portentous stirrings of politics in our country, from sea to sea. [9]
At the Palace two days past thou saidst thou hadst never killed a man; and I know that thy religion condemns killing even in war. [11]
Patience was only too delighted, and took her into her museum of natural history, art, religion, and vegetation. [4]
They were gathered together in little settlements on neighboring islands, and paternally cared for by the Government, and instructed in religion, and deprived of tobacco, because the superintendent of the Sunday-school was not a smoker, and so considered smoking immoral. [5]
And how terrible to think that all the spiritual beauty of such a religion should have been hardened into chapter and verse and regulation. [9]
She was horrified to think how near she had come to being guilty herself; she had been saved in the nick of time by a revival in the colored Methodist Church, a fortnight before, at which time and place she "got religion. [5]
Both were true to their religion. [10]
The dogged clinging to the archaic speculations of apologists, saints, and schoolmen had brought religion to a low ebb indeed. [9]
Now I want to remind you that religion is not a matter of intellectual luxury to those of us who are interested in it, but something very different. [6]
Religion, he began to perceive, was an undertaking, are attempt to find unity and harmony of the soul by adopting, after mature thought, a definite principle in life. [9]
The thought came to him: was he indeed greater, more vital than the religion he professed? [9]
And then occurred to her his explanation of personality as the medium by which all truth is revealed, by which the current of religion, the motive power in all history, is transmitted. [9]
If you wanted to get the Pundit to look at his religion fairly, you must first depolarize this and all similar words for him. [6]
It appalled her to find that she questioned phases of that religion. [13]
People are beginning to find out now that you can't study any religion by itself to any good purpose. [6]
It had nothing to do with religion. [9]
And wants you to come and talk religion with him in his study, Susan Posey, does he? [6]
Religion, which ought to be the great leveller, cannot reduce these elements to the same grade. [6]
What I wanted to ask you was whether you think the domestication of religion will affect its power in the regulation of conduct. [4]
What they failed to acknowledge was his point of view--and this he was wise enough not to press at dinner tables and in drawing-rooms--that religion should have the penetrability of ether; that it should be the absorbent of life. [9]
For a long time she has been unwilling to share my poverty, and if Herr Peter had remained loyal to our holy religion, I would persuade her myself. [10]
He had won through it, but only by the merest shave, and it had all left him with a bad spot in his heart, in spite of his "having religion. [11]
The tailor had three ruling passions--cupidity, vanity, and religion. [11]
And even Paul, though not consciously inconsistent, could not rid himself completely of that ancient, automatic, conception of religion which the Master condemned, but had on occasions attempted fruitlessly to unite the new with the old. [9]
It was as though a search-light were flung ahead of him and he saw, dimly, a new order--a new order in government and religion. [9]
The results of this teaching of religion in modern terms are already becoming apparent, and some persons are already beginning to see that the Creeds express certain elemental truths in frankly archaic language. [9]
She acted on this superstition as if it were a religion. [8]
Is it not this same mighty, deep-seated power that somehow operates on the minds of men, exciting and stirring them up in every avenue of society,--in politics, in religion, in literature, in morals, in all the manifold relations of life? [7]
Wolf had expected this query, and, while he filled his companion's goblet with the good Wurzburg wine which Ursula provided, he begged him not to bring religion into their conversation. [10]
To human beings this is a much more hate-inspiring thing than is any detail connected with religion. [5]
They say that they say in Boston that there is a satisfaction in being well dressed which religion cannot give. [4]
Borrow one of these from another language and religion, and you will find it leaves all its magnetism behind it. [6]
They felt that there should be a leisurely element in religion. [9]
Their character and their history, their customs and their religion, confront you with riddles at every turn-riddles which are a trifle more perplexing after they are explained than they were before. [5]
It is in their hearts that the "sentimental" religion some people are so fond of sneering at has its source. [6]
The god of Thebes, our Ammon, shall be transformed into Ormuzd,--Isis or Hathor, into Anahita, and those among our gods for whom I can find no likeness in the Persian religion, I shall designate by the name of 'the Deity. [10]
If you're in the wrong place, all the religion in the world won't help you. [9]
Barneveld, who, under the title of Advocate, represented the province of Holland, the most important of them all, claimed for each province a right to determine its own state religion. [6]
Direct action is the thing, the general strike, war,--the new creed, the new religion that will bring salvation. [9]
The Parson says the thermometer is 15 deg., and going down; that there is a snowdrift across the main church entrance three feet high, and that the house looks as if it had gone into winter quarters, religion and all. [4]
They talk about the religion of humanity. [4]
Old Dr. Ewing, the rector of St. Anne's, while conceding that no better or more charitable woman existed, found it so exceedingly difficult to talk to her, on the subject of religion that he had never tried it but once. [9]
Apparently, in India, the poor bankrupt themselves daily for their religion. [5]
The proof-reading on the P & P cost me the last rags of my religion. [5]
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. [5]
It was not the most promising party to travel with and hope to gain a higher veneration for religion through the example of its devotees. [5]
I notice that the monks do not water their wine so much as the osteria keepers do; which speaks equally well for their religion and their taste. [4]
Sir, I repudiate the loathsome vulgarism as an insult to the first miracle wrought by the Founder of our religion! [6]
He saw through the hypocrisy of the London Company, "making religion their color, when all their aim was nothing but present profit. [4]
Here indeed was the germ of a new sanction, of a new motive, of a new religion that strangely harmonized with the concepts of the old--once the dynamic power of these was revealed. [9]
In spite of the fact that I was unable to relate to a satisfying conception of religion my new-born determination, I made up my mind, at least, to renounce my tortuous ways. [9]
The controversy between the claims of the practical life and the intellectual is as idle as the so-called conflict between science and religion. [4]
Religion, then, is the business of Benares, just as gold-production is the business of Johannesburg. [5]
Following him without the blessing of the Church, she would trample under foot every dear tradition of her life, win the scorn of all of her religion, and destroy her own peace; for the faith of her fathers was as the breath of her nostrils. [11]
Thick-headed commentators upon the Bible, and stupid preachers and teachers, work more damage to religion than sensible, cool-brained clergymen can fight away again, toil as they may. [5]
In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires. [2]
Oh, you'll see that some day, when they have a museum there illustrating the "Science of Religion. [4]
Do you think that religion and education are benefited in the long-run by this? [4]
And no doubt that part of the work prospers best, for grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in. [5]
It is true that our religion requires much serious thought. [10]
They tell me that Minister Stoker is following round after Myrtle Hazard, talking religion at her jest about the same way he'd have liked to with our Susan, I calculate. [6]
Well, she's more than worth while experimenting on, she must have lived and breathed what you call the `movie atmosphere' all her life, and yet she never seems to have read and absorbed any sentimental literature or cheap religion. [9]
There was something terribly wrong with her soul, something terribly wrong with her churchmen and her religion. [13]
The old religion teaches that the world is cruel for most of us, but if we are obedient and humble we shall be rewarded in heaven. [9]
He had never taken much stock in religion, but if Goodrich went in for it he thought he'd go and look it over. [9]
Amid her former surroundings nothing had afforded her any support, except her religion. [10]
You are so sure of yourself," she hesitated a moment, for she had never ventured to discuss religion with him, "of your faith. [9]
Senator Dilworthy lived sumptuously, and Washington's quarters were charming --gas; running water, hot and cold; bath-room, coal-fires, rich carpets, beautiful pictures on the walls; books on religion, temperance, public charities and financial schemes; trim colored servants, dainty food --everything a body could wish for. [5]

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