All feriae publicae were generally observed by prayers, sacrifices, and visits to temples; in addition, the feriae stativae and feriae conceptivae usually included feasts.
Imagining the world and its objects and forces to be beings of passion, belief, and self-interest gave us some comfort, by allowing us to think that these gods could be appeased or appealed to by means of our prayers, sacrifices, and supplications.
Hades was depicted as stern and pitiless, unmoved by prayer or sacrifice (like death itself).
Suryavarman was a strong and capable ruler who had a knowledge of prayer, ritual, sacrifice, and astronomy.
Although he is omnipotent and omniscient, he is thought to have withdrawn from his creation and therefore to be inaccessible to prayer or sacrifice.
Ancestors, of whom jok was held the universal sublimation, were worshiped along with jok at shrines and sacred trees by prayer and sacrifice.
A personal god may, perhaps, be moved by prayer and sacrifice to cause or to prevent events; when the order of the world is fixed, however, the course of events cannot be changed by these or any other means.
In his confinement he was able to free himself and the planet through a constant stream of contemplative prayer and sacrifice.
Prayer replaced sacrifice to invoke the potent presence, but prayers can be recited anywhere and at any time, so why do people still feel the need for a special holy center of spiritual concentration?
The rabbinic period is after the time of Jesus, inaugurated by the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., leading to the development of a completely prayer-based Judaism instead of the combination of prayer and sacrifice that characterized Second Temple Judaism.
