Instead of praying, he turns to Robinson Crusoe.
Instead of praying to their maker, Kabir told me, they would pray to Lerounis.
The Ethiopian saint Walatta Petros scolded her fellow females for wasting time on manicures instead of praying.
Suddenly reflective, Marr now confides that he has been reading the poetry of George Herbert, and adds: "What I do instead of praying or meditation is that I draw.
The surgeon became popular in conservative circles when, instead of praying at a prayer breakfast in Washington, he rudely blasted President Obama in front of President Obama.
Instead of praying five times a day as Islam requires, he said, Islamist members of Parliament could justifiably combine their noon prayers with their afternoon prayers to avoid interrupting the parliamentary schedule.
More than once, my mother whisked me home, and I would spend the rest of the day convalescing on the couch with "The Complete Sherlock Holmes,"instead of praying to be inscribed in the book of life.
But instead of praying to the bug-eyed monster (as I knew he called the TV), he was using a hand spade on the soil around the pale violet dahlias crowding the wire fence that went across the front of the yard.
Once thought to have the makings of a dynasty, thanks to their talent, their youth and their financial might, the Cubs suddenly were hit with the burden of massive expectations — from a fan base that, instead of praying for success, now demanded it — and failed to meet them in both 2017 and 2018.
He shut his eyes but, instead of praying for inward strength now, he found he was just looking at the strange reddish dark and the little flashes and floaters in there that got almost hypnotic when you really looked at them.
