religious discipline
Devotional self-regulation routine
Religious discipline refers to a structured practice or regimen undertaken for spiritual purposes—prayer, fasting, meditation, or study carried out with commitment and regularity.
It also names a branch of religious knowledge or training: theology, biblical studies, and other religious disciplines.
The phrase can describe self-control exercised for faith-based reasons: The monks maintained strict religious discipline.
- daily prayersScheduled religious observances
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- spiritual exercisesActivities nurturing sacred connection
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- prayerAddress to deity
scripture · celibacy · vow of poverty · fasting · penance · ablutions · ritual purity · pilgrimage · forgiveness · humility · offerings · chanting · theology · renunciation · mortification · hair shirt · compassion · simplicity
- faith familiesfamily devotions, family prayer, family worship, family Bible, family altar
- English PuritanismPuritanism, Puritans, strict morals, godly, piety
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- religious educationBible college, Bible stories, Sunday school, church teachings, Sunday school teachers
- religious ordersBenedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, Carmelites
religious disciplineapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
heresy · sacrilege · blasphemy · iconoclasm
religious disciplinehedonism
Pursuit of gratification
worldliness · licentiousness · debauchery · self-indulgence · libertinism
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