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religious person

n. a person who manifests devotion to a deity [syn: religionist] [ant: nonreligious person]

Usage examples of "religious person".

Probably every religious person has the recollection of particular crises in which a directer vision of the truth, a direct perception, perhaps, of a living God's existence, swept in and overwhelmed the languor of the more ordinary belief.

In the history of Christian mysticism the problem how to discriminate between such messages and experiences as were really divine miracles, and such others as the demon in his malice was able to counterfeit, thus making the religious person twofold more the child of hell he was before, has always been a difficult one to solve, needing all the sagacity and experience of the best directors of conscience.

For it would be inevitable, in case a religious person were allowed to own superfluous possessions, that these things would greatly occupy his mind, be it to acquire them, to preserve them, or to increase them.

Not being a religious person, I have to say that in this case, good karma was with me.

Do you know, you're the first really religious person I've ever met.

A classical example is that of the religious person who is brought up to believe in the goodness of God and who is suddenly faced by what strikes him as a case of overwhelming, senseless evil.

Be that as it may, we were on our way before the last testimonial of the religious person had faded into silence.