Difference between God-fearing and Religious

God-fearing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: One who follows the precepts of a religious practice and respects and reveres God and His authority

Religious

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Concerning religion.Committed to the practice of religion.Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A member of a religious order.

Example sentence: I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.