Sentence examples for long prayers from inspiring English sources

The formal ceremonial cycle consisted of six agricultural festivals featuring long prayers of thanks.

Dr. King used the "dull monotony of a narrow jail cell" to write his letter and to "pray long prayers".

The people could share, in fully amplified sound, the boredom of the famous as they listened to long prayers being intoned by a Catholic Cardinal, a Greek Orthodox archbishop, a Protestant clergyman, and a Rabbi.

I used to admire men like Roy Moore, because I loved everything about church — the off-key a cappella rendition of "Onward, Christian Soldiers," the typos in the bulletin, the ladies who smelled like Aquanet with little round rouge circles on their cheeks, and — yes — men like Moore who said long prayers and ran the show.

They bent their heads and said long prayers.

In prison one has a lot of time for long thoughts and long prayers.

But that was a very long prayer.

Lent is observed very strictly by the monks with many long prayer services and a much restricted diet.

But it's an intense record with some kind of devotional drive at the center: it's a long prayer, or an exorcism.

At an event Sunday, she offered a long prayer for the military personnel who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan over the weekend.

The Confessions of the great Christian thinker St. Augustine of Hippo (354 430) are, in the final analysis, a long prayer with the Creator.