English example sentences with "religious"

Learn how to use religious in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.

The recent scandals involving altar boys and religious leaders have undermined the faith people have in the Church.

His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.

Full religious freedom is assured to all people.

The cathedral had a religious painting on its ceiling.

But it was not successful for long because everyone, even religious people, had a strong attraction to the game.

The Inca were religious people.

Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.

That religious cult has got some pretty off the wall ideas.

Later, those from many other countries flocked to the United States because they were attracted by reports of great economic opportunities and religious and political freedom.

Religious education is prohibited at a public school.

My father was religious and he was a very moral man.

I've lost my religious faith.

I'm a deeply religious man and believe in life after death.

On the religious side, the decision caused serious dissension among followers.

The new law will deprive religious minorities of their right to vote.

Keep off the religious issue when talking with him.

He has engaged in religious activity since then.

He is tolerant in religious belief of others.

He has no religious mind.

He was not a political figure but a religious one.

In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.

"By the way, do you know what a Shinto shrine is?" "I've a little bit of knowledge on the subject. It's a religious facility where that which is the object of worship, that called the genius loci, is enshrined."

The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars.

And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

No one may be questioned about his opinions, and the same for religious opinions, provided that their manifestation does not trouble the public order established by the law.

All men who profit from the fruits of the earth must give back part of them to the Church, who will apply them to three uses: providing for pastors, the maintenance of religious buildings, help to the poor.

If Buddhism is attractive, it is because it appears as a possibility of touching the infinite and obtaining happiness without having any concrete religious obligations. A spiritual auto-eroticism of some sort.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

Atheism isn't a religious belief.

Unlike his sister, he has retained the religious faith his parents brought him up in.

They also promised religious freedom.

He had strong religious beliefs.

Parents and religious leaders criticized him.

The religious man remained kneeling for hours.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

The Inca were a religious people.

By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense.

Tom has a lot of religious books, but he has never read them.

Tom isn't religious.

Tom doesn't appear to be very religious.

I've never been religious, but hearing the Lord's Prayer in Latin makes me shudder.

He is not religious.

Some religious men regard pain as a sort of trial from God.

She listens to religious music.

Speaking of religious matters is a delicate affair.

Some Middle-Easterners seek more religious solutions.

The violence of one nation against another, generated by religious and nationalist ideals, led to the creation of a new term to describe the cold desire for total extinction of a group of people, based on criteria of color, ethnicity, or religion.

He is still grappling with religious beliefs.

For many years, the abbey was turned into a fortress, happily joining in itself martial and religious architecture.

For example, the idea of marriage is a religious idea, a thing that comes from God.

Poe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between parodies of religious or other fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane.

Some religious groups set up gigantic generational ships that travelled many years away from the Solar System to distant stars.

Lots of religious songs in Ladino are translations from Hebrew.

People in other countries often say that the Japanese are not religious enough.

She's very religious.

I'm tired and hungry. Tomorrow I mustn't eat or drink for religious reasons.

Are you religious?

Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.

Certain people escaped from religious discrimination.

There are religious issues we should keep in mind.

You're very religious, aren't you?

Religious behaviour is much less regulated by the government here than in other places.

Their religious fervor was unparalleled.

A hermit is a person who lives in a simple way apart from others especially for religious reasons.

Tom is very religious.

The Jewish religious leadership required every Jewish individual to learn to read and study the Torah.

The best-known compositions by Franz Liszt are his nineteen Hungarian Rhapsodies, but he also created beautiful sonatas, symphonies, concerti, songs, and religious compositions.

The best-known compositions by Franz Liszt are his nineteen Hungarian Rhapsodies, but he also created beautiful sonatas, symphonies, concerti, Lieder, and religious compositions.

I'm beginning to think that religious leaders are popular because they pander to the prejudices of the pack they call their flock.

There is a philosophical branch of Buddhism, and a religious one, and in each of them several tendencies have developed.

Joaquim is said to be religious, but he hardly knows the Lord's prayer.

Tom works with religious devotion.

Tom belonged to a religious order.

The Quakers are a religious people.

Tom's parents were greatly upset by his conversion to a different religious faith.

A turkey is a large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries, has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Tom and Mary are deeply religious and are horrified that their son wants to get married on a beach, rather than in a church.

Tom is super religious.

The US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism “sting operations” based on religious and ethnic identity, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights Institute said.

Pope Francis sounded a bit like the Dalai Lama when he said: "I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter much. Far more important is that they be a good human being."

Tom is a religious nut.

The Pilgrims came to America, fleeing religious persecution.

I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Probably, the prime minister means 'politics based on religious values.'

I know atheists that have more humanity than all these religious and these socialists.

He's not a religious man.

He's not a religious person.

He's not religious.

He's very religious.

I've never asked you this before, but are you religious?

Tom and Mary weren't religious at all.

What is a religious sect?

The residents of this town are deeply religious and patriotic people.

To take part in religious ceremonies is an attack against the common morality. Protestants must be dealt with more severely than Catholics and the liberal more severely than the conservative. The closer Christianity is to science, the more criminal it is. A philosopher is therefore the very worst of criminals.

Tom isn't a religious person.

Dan was a very devout religious individual.

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