In his world, the poor were an object of prayer and not a subject for politics, especially not revolutionary politics.
He's known as an expositor of contemplative prayer, and it may be that he was the last American writer to describe prayer with the pure and uncut confidence that the object of prayer really exists and is not a product of the cultural imagination.
Echeverria isolates the milagritos - bronze pendants that are attached to the Virgin and represent the object of prayer - and photographs them using the pin and string they originally came with.
Your Jerusalem is an ideal, an object of prayers and a bearer of the collective memory of a people whose members actually bear many individual memories.
The Mount is not a site of Jewish prayer but the object of Jewish prayer.
I will also pray as he prayed, and whether or not the object of my prayer is at all compatible with his, I will have him in my heart as I move like he moved.
Among what are called the higher religions (e.g., Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism), divine action, which is the object of the human action of prayer, violates neither human consciousness nor human freedom.
In 2007, parents and students who objected to prayer at graduation sued over the Round Rock district's policy requiring student elections to determine whether to include prayer as a part of the ceremonies.
Further, he is the main and the primary and ultimate object of Christian worship and prayer, and as the sole recipient of the highest kind of worship.
Below are the "malic moulds", bachelors who vainly send emanations up towards the object of their desires (or prayers).
That these powerful causes exist, and that they are permanent, is my fixed opinion; that they may produce a like accord in all questions touching, however remotely, the liberty, prosperity and happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.
