Religion vs. Sage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Religion and Sage
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Definitions
Religion
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities and/or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture.
Sage
One venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom.
Religion
The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe
Respect for religion.
Sage
Any of various plants of the genus Salvia of the mint family, especially S. officinalis, having aromatic grayish-green leaves.
Religion
A particular variety of such belief, especially when organized into a system of doctrine and practice
The world's many religions.
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Sage
The leaves of S. officinalis used as a seasoning.
Religion
A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
Sage
Any of various similar or related plants, chiefly in the mint family.
Religion
The life or condition of a person in a religious order
A widow who went into religion and became a nun.
Sage
Sagebrush.
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Religion
A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion
A person for whom art became a religion.
Sage
Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment.
Religion
(uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
Sage
Proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment
Sage advice.
Religion
(countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
Belief system
Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.
Sage
(Archaic) Serious; solemn.
Religion
(uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
Sage
Wise.
Religion
Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.
Sage
(obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
Religion
(countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
Sage
A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
Religion
Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
Sage
The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
Religion
Engage in religious practice.
Sage
Any plant in the genus Salvia
Religion
Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
Sage
Any of a number of plants such as sagebrush considered to be similar to Salvia officinalis, mostly because they are small shrubs and have gray foliage or are aromatic.
Religion
To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
Sage
(Internet slang) Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.
Sage in all fields
Religion
The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.
An orderly life so far as others are able to observe us is now and then produced by prudential motives or by dint of habit; but without seriousness there can be no religious principle at the bottom, no course of conduct from religious motives; in a word, there can be no religion.
Religion [was] not, as too often now, used as equivalent for godliness; but . . . it expressed the outer form and embodiment which the inward spirit of a true or a false devotion assumed.
Religions, by which are meant the modes of divine worship proper to different tribes, nations, or communities, and based on the belief held in common by the members of them severally. . . . There is no living religion without something like a doctrine. On the other hand, a doctrine, however elaborate, does not constitute a religion.
Religion . . . means the conscious relation between man and God, and the expression of that relation in human conduct.
After the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
The image of a brute, adornedWith gay religions full of pomp and gold.
Sage
(Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply.
Reminder to sage and report.
Religion
Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Religion will attend you . . . as a pleasant and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life.
Sage
A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
Religion
A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.
A good man was there of religion.
Sage
A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.
At his birth a star,Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come,And guides the Eastern sages.
Religion
Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
Those parts of pleading which in ancient times might perhaps be material, but at this time are become only mere styles and forms, are still continued with much religion.
Sage
Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
All you sage counselors, hence!
Religion
A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny;
He lost his faith but not his morality
Sage
Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counseled the general to retreat.
Religion
Institution to express belief in a divine power;
He was raised in the Baptist religion
A member of his own faith contradicted him
Sage
Grave; serious; solemn.
Sage
A mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom
Sage
Aromatic fresh or dried gray-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc
Sage
Any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb
Sage
Having wisdom that comes with age and experience
Sage
Of the gray-green color of sage leaves
