Sentence examples for prayer directed from inspiring English sources
Seraphim's spiritual doctrine centred on a program of contemplative prayer directed toward mystical experience.
Then Clifford Nae'ole, the Hawaiian cultural adviser for the Ritz-Carlton on Kapalua, walked on to the first tee and began to chant an Oli, a traditional Hawaiian prayer, directed to Hawaiian ancestors from the four winds.
1250 or 1300 November 27 , 1346near Burgas, Bulgaria Gregory of Sinai, also called Gregory Sinaites (born 13th century died Nov. 27, 1346, Mt. Paroria, near modern Burgas, Bulg.), Greek Orthodox monk, theologian, and mystic, the most prominent medieval advocate of Hesychasm, a Byzantine form of contemplative prayer directed toward ecstatic mystical experience.
This prayer directed at the political situation, but it is even more about Living.
Positive results have also been reported concerning prayer directed at injured non-human primates (bush babies).
The god Krishna enjoyed an unexpected surge in prayers directed his way from upstate New York, and the Beatles were on the record-player twenty-four hours a day.
"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," directed by Wayne Wang ("The Joy Luck Club," "Maid in Manhattan"), won the prizes for best film and best actor on Saturday at the 55th annual San Sebastian film festival in Spain, Agence France-Presse reported.
The movie's fuzzy idea of God as a sly old Santa Claus who means well but can't begin to answer all the prayers directed his way is a soothing pop confection intended to ruffle as few feathers as possible.
Here the town meetings involve participation by ordinary citizens with sectarian prayers directed to them.
The Senate chaplain has made some news over the course of the government shutdown for offering increasingly pointed prayers directed towards the politicians who refuse to budge and end the shutdown.
showed that prayers directed from Christian intercessors were effective in shortening the recovery period of hospitalized patients suffering from disabling coronary conditions.
