Sentence examples for pray instead of from inspiring English sources
As he settled into his role as protector of the church in a national crisis, he asked Poles to pray instead of taking to the streets when martial law was imposed and Mr. Walesa was jailed.
But that day it was the decision of the young widow to continue praying instead of returning to the clinic that haunted Peter.
My pre-election prayer ran thus: "O Lord (if you exist), beseech thy true believers to demonstrate their faith in the power of prayer by staying home and praying instead of voting".
As a public school teacher, I do fervently wish that pupils at that instant were praying instead of trying to do everything but that!
After all, if Hurst gets his way, Alabama schoolkids will spend about 45 hours a year praying instead of, say, learning math, or science, or even learning sex-ed.
And I'll be praying that instead of reasserting myths and delusions, we might begin the hard process of facing our national truths.
Her followers sometimes pay others to pray for them instead of popping pills, and they think insurers should pick up the tab.
We join with a new kind of encouraging family -- ones we trust pray with us, instead of for us behind the scenes.
That exhibition featured several controversial works, including one depicting Christian worshipers praying to Mickey Mouse instead of Jesus Christ and another with a Russian general raping a male soldier next to the words "Glory to Russia!" Church leaders denounced the show.
The couple had prayed over him instead of seeking medical care.
There he portrays a Catholic who prays to heaven instead of to the cross-bearing priest; the change can be viewed as a conversion of the Catholic to Protestantism.
