Sentence examples for actual prayer from inspiring English sources

"What we want is actual prayer," said Alderman Ronald J. Waters.

They wrote "Jesus 2000," an infomercial for a "self-worshipping" God who requires no actual prayer or church attendance, by e-mail before the tour.

As it goes on, chattering and rippling and soloing all over the place in a B-flat drone, reducing to seagull squeaks and bass rumble for a few minutes, then resurging greatly at the 25-minute mark, it starts to sound like actual prayer music.

The hope – for some an actual prayer – is that the Affordable Care Act will significantly alter this course.

I'm not sure how much actual "prayer" went into "her" decision and what the constitution of that prayer was, but it presumes that she prayed to God for an answer and, at some divine moment, God divinely answered her prayers and must have said, "Sarah, don't run".

The memory for me wasn't the actual prayer, the memory for me was my grandmother taking me aside from all the hustle and bustle of the holidays into a quiet room, sitting me on the bed quietly, holding my hands, and reciting this prayer with me.

Particularly at dawn prayers, some mosques blast not just the roughly dozen sentences of the call itself, but all of the Koranic verses and actual prayers intoned by the local imam.

We see our prayers, the actual prayers, sung, mumbled, cried, spoken, moaned, from our very lips, being offered up to God.

It is very easy for a prayer meeting to turn into a discussion about prayer rather than a time for actual prayers.

The actual lyrics of our prayer are Thuma mina, thuma mina, thuma mina, Somandla/Sh'ma koleinu, sh'ma koleinu, sh'ma kolein, Adonai.

But again, Acts gives us the actual time of the afternoon prayer, which we didn't know otherwise.