List of Mnemonics - Religion

Religion

  • For the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, remember your BAPTISM (using the ancient Hebrew letter I in place of the modern J):
Bartholomew, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, James, John, James, Jude, Judas, Simon Peter, Simon, and Matthew
  • The phrase PALE GAS may be used to remember the seven deadly sins:
Pride, Avarice (greed), Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Anger (wrath), Sloth
  • The position of the hands when making the Christian sign of the cross can be remembered by the phrase:
Spectacles (forehead), testicles (stomach), wallet (left shoulder - as when a man's wallet would be carried in the left breast pocket of his jacket), and watch (right shoulder - as when a pocket watch was carried in the right vest pocket)

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Famous quotes containing the word religion:

    “India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)