Religious
- Forerunner, title of St. John the Baptist, forerunner of Jesus
- Jesus in Islam, forerunner of Muhammad (in the Islamic view)
- Shaykh Ahmad, forerunner of Bábism (in the Bábí-Bahá'í view)
- Sayyid Kazim Rashti, forerunner of Bábism (in the Bábí-Bahá'í view)
- Báb, forerunner and herald of the Bahá'í Faith (in the Bahá'í view)
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Famous quotes containing the word religious:
“One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“American thinking, when it concerns itself with beautiful letters as when it concerns itself with religious dogma or political theory, is extraordinarily timid and superficial ... [I]t evades the genuinely serious problems of art and life as if they were stringently taboo ... [T]he outward virtues it undoubtedly shows are always the virtues, not of profundity, not of courage, not of originality, but merely those of an emasculated and often very trashy dilettantism.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“When holy and devout religious men
Are at their beads, ‘tis much to draw them thence,
So sweet is zealous contemplation.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)