Sentence examples for ceaseless prayer from inspiring English sources
They were accused of neglecting the sacraments for ceaseless prayer and of teaching a materialistic vision of God.
Inner asceticism means, above all, daily recollection of death and judgment, together with perpetual remembrance of God as omnipresent and omnipotent, and ceaseless prayer.
Why, he wondered, would anyone endure hours of ceaseless prayer in the stifling summer heat dressed in a heavy dark coat and fur hat?
I was part of what's known as "ceaseless prayer," which is the idea that you always have a constant conversation with God going on in the back of your mind at all times.
Each day, the Church commemorates the memory and lives of different saints, as catalogued and described in the Synaxaristes, which abound with examples of spirituality and virtue such as ceaseless prayer, fasting, humility, patient endurance, sacrifice, chastity and martyrdom, all of them woven together by love, the greatest of virtues: love for man and love for Christ.
"The Hundred Chapters" also constitutes a polemic against Messalianism, the pietistic movement (condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431) that claimed that in consequence of primeval sin everyone has a demon within his soul that can be exorcised only by ceaseless prayers.
The most troubling was the ceaseless roll of drums.... Whether it meant war, peace or prayer, I could not tell".
But many of those who passed by in a ceaseless flow blew kisses, or waved, or crossed themselves, or moved their lips in a silent prayer.
The variety was ceaseless.
"The curiosity is ceaseless".
His headaches seemed ceaseless.
