Not Thinking About Religion
“The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament or the writings of the mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and one’s neighbor in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn’t the time.
—C. S. Lewis