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Religious vs. Spiritual — What's the Difference?

Religious vs. Spiritual — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Religious and Spiritual

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Religious

Relating to or believing in a religion
Religious music
Both men were deeply religious and moralistic

Spiritual

Of, relating to, consisting of, or having the nature of spirit; not material; supernatural
Spiritual power.

Religious

A person bound by monastic vows.

Spiritual

Of, concerned with, or affecting the soul
Spiritual guidance.
Spiritual growth.

Religious

Having or showing belief in and reverence for God or a deity.
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Spiritual

Not concerned with material or worldly things
Led a spiritual life.

Religious

Of, concerned with, or teaching religion
A religious text.

Spiritual

Of or belonging to a religion; sacred
Spiritual practices.
Spiritual music.

Religious

Extremely scrupulous or conscientious
Religious devotion to duty.

Spiritual

A religious folk song of African American origin.

Religious

A member of a monastic order, especially a nun or monk.

Spiritual

A work composed in imitation of such a song.

Religious

Concerning religion.
It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.

Spiritual

Often spirituals Religious, spiritual, or ecclesiastical matters.

Religious

Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.

Spiritual

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.

Religious

Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
I'm a religious fan of college basketball.

Spiritual

Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Religious

A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.

Spiritual

Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

Religious

Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
Our law forbids at their religious ritesMy presence.

Spiritual

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
A spiritual substance or being

Religious

Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
Men whose livesReligious titled them the sons of God.

Spiritual

Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

Religious

Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
Thus, Indianlike,Religious in my error, I adoreThe sun, that looks upon his worshiper.

Spiritual

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
The spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation

Religious

Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
One of them is religious.

Spiritual

A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

Religious

A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.

Spiritual

Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.

Religious

A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience

Spiritual

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

Religious

Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church;
Religious texts
A nenber if a religious order
Lords temporal and spiritual
Spiritual leaders
Spiritual songs

Spiritual

Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

Religious

Having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity;
A religious man
Religious attitude

Spiritual

Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
God's law is spiritual; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man.

Religious

Extremely scrupulous and conscientious;
Religious in observing the rules of health

Spiritual

Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; - opposed to carnal.
That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings.
If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one.

Spiritual

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.

Spiritual

A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.

Spiritual

A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

Spiritual

Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church;
Religious texts
A nenber if a religious order
Lords temporal and spiritual
Spiritual leaders
Spiritual songs

Spiritual

Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul;
A spiritual approach to life
Spiritual fulfillment
Spiritual values
Unearthly love

Spiritual

Lacking material body or form or substance;
Spiritual beings
The vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm

Spiritual

Like or being a phantom;
A ghostly face at the window
A phantasmal presence in the room
Spectral emanations
Spiritual tappings at a seance

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