Tuesday, January 30, 2024

religare, meaning “to tie”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland explained that the English word religion comes from the Latin religare, meaning “to tie” or, more literally, “to re-tie.” Thus, “true religion [is] the tie that binds us to God and to each other.”



Alan T. Phillips

"God Knows and Loves You," General Conference October 2023. See also Jeffrey R. Holland, “Religion: Bound by Loving Ties” (Brigham Young University devotional, Aug. 16, 2016), speeches.byu.edu.

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