单词 | to find religion |
释义 | > as lemmasto find religion (also Christ, God, Jesus, etc.) P6. to find religion (also Christ, God, Jesus, etc.) (and similar phrases): (chiefly among Protestants) to experience conversion to the Christian faith.Cf. earlier use (not as a fixed phrase) in quot. a1626 at sense 9b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > convert [verb (intransitive)] turnc1225 converta1400 to come through1708 to get religion1772 to see the light1812 to experience religion1837 vert1888 to find religion (also Christ, God, Jesus, etc.)1957 1798 Universalist's Misc. Mar. 67 Being asked if he felt his pains so great since he had found Christ? he answered, ‘No, he felt no pains now.’ 1805 G. Douglass Anecd. Singular & Remarkable Conversions 6 About the middle of the sermon she exclaimed ‘glory be to God, I have found the Lord’; which she repeated over and over, being filled with joy unspeakable. 1825 Mem. Life Harriet Dow 7 Do you think..you are too young? if you do, look on me, I am younger than you, and I trust that I have found religion. 1864 E. G. White Testimonies for Church (1871) I. 18 Dear child, have you found Jesus? 1877 Independent 4 Jan. 11/3 He said that at least 200 boys had found Jesus in the Tabernacle. 1932 H. J. Laski Let. 21 Aug. in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) II. 1402 He..asked me in a loud voice..if I had found Christ. I said that I was..exempt from religious experience. 1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation i. 22 If..we have in any true sense of the phrase, ‘found religion’, it means that we shall have so organised our minds that, for flashes at least, we attain to a sense of interpenetration with the reality around us. 1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 July a3/2 The groups say the anticult forces are curtailing their religious freedom. Students have the right to make their own decisions, they say, and people who have found God should be able to tell others about it. 2008 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 7 Jan. 10/1 (headline) With a mid-race epiphany, Michael closes his eyes and finds Jesus. < as lemmas |
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