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:

    “When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “To sum up:
    1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.
    2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
    3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)