She said she had been on the third day of a three-day fast, praying to God to provide direction for her life.
I'd skip lunch, announce that I was fasting, pray during recess.
He spoke of souls buried there in pagan times, then Christian times, the monks in the monasteries fasting, praying, and most likely having to fend off invaders.
The WIPNET-led group, which eventually became known as the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, demonstrated against the war by fasting, praying, and picketing at markets and in front of government buildings.
Julie Sokolowski is classic non-pro Dumont casting as Céline, the twentysomething daughter of a wealthy politician, resident in a remote nunnery as a novitiate, alarming the elders with her fierce belief: fasting, praying and cultivating a passionate obsession with God's absence from human life.
He also has written numerous shorter commentaries on the spiritual significance of fasting, praying, invocation of divine names and attributes, and spiritual music as instruments of the catharsis of the soul.
I haven't been doing much since Ramadan started, other than working, fasting, praying, eating at sunset and going to the mosque for taraweh — the extra daily prayers — as often as I can.
It is Ramadan, the holy Muslim month of fasting, praying and meditation.
