The connection between literature and emotions has been evident since the very beginnings of literary expression. While the importance of metaphorical interpretation of emotions was emphasized in antiquity, in later periods, especially during the Renaissance and Romanticism, attention shifted to the author's and reader's experience of sensibility within the literary text. Besides specific literary periods, emotions also played a significant role in Croatian folk literature. The primary function of emotions in religious-themed folk songs is to bring the text of the song closer to the recipients, strengthen their faith and sense of community, and teach them about Christian life. This paper studies emotions in religious-themed folk songs. It first briefly describes the theoretical part about folk poetry and emotions in literature, and then, based on the selected corpus which includes: Hrvatska Pjesmarica ili Sbirka rado pjevanih pjesama by Gjuro Stjepan Deželić, Izbor pučkih pjesama nabožne tematike by Divna Zečević, and the poetry collections by ethnomusicologist Miroslava Hadžihusejnović Valašek (Kada vrime slavno dođe (2014), Tradicijske crkvene pučke pjesme na području Požeške biskupije (2020), Hvatajte se u pleteno kolo (2020), i Hodi k meni, puče dragi (2019)), explores the manner of expressing emotions and its content in religious folk songs.