Sentence examples for petition god from inspiring English sources

Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of the Archdiocese of Detroit, said he disputed the whole premise of the National Day of Prayer, which he said seems to petition God with certain goals in mind.

The investment will help sustain the on-screen Bible and a prayer wall on which Web surfers can petition God to bless the afflicted or revive a drifting relationship.

("I am not a prosperity preacher," James Fadele said at one sermon I attended, "but I am rich!") Redeemed pastors routinely petition God to transform their followers into millionaires, members are encouraged to tithe and the Sunday collection is accompanied by joyous fanfare.

"In your image" is a clear echo of Genesis; elsewhere, she refers to "that longing for a holy completeness in the form of a child," as if she were imagining herself as one of those barren Biblical mothers who desperately petition God to bless their wombs.

"We would like to petition God but we haven't got his address.

The 16th-century Book Of Common Prayer collect seems to assume that God is wholly responsible for the weather, and for the abundance of produce; the prayer petitions God accordingly.

I checked my Bible today for prayers petitioning God for "a successful surgery, with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications". I found no instructions on prayer by committee or how to test the results afterward.

These skeptical observations suggest that the fact that many Christian texts portray human beings petitioning God for forgiveness need not imply either that God has been wronged by human beings, that divine forgiveness is in any way like the human variety, or even that God logically can forgive human beings their transgressions.

The Italian fan who petitioned God to return David Bowie to Earth is unlikely to get a response, but she found nearly 2,000 people who shared her feelings.

According to Catholic doctrine, every prayer and every candle lit serves to free the dead from some amount of time in Purgatory, and women have made offerings in his name ever since, petitioning God to spare his soul.

It wasn't all this garbage floating around in the press". Falwell led a prayer from the L-shaped sofa that had long been the main prop in Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's talk show-like production, petitioning God for the "spiritual restoration" of Bakker and his wife.