Sentence examples for prayer something from inspiring English sources
I said a prayer, something I had not done in a very long time, and then I felt the blade move across my back, scoring the flesh eight times, in rapid succession.
Supporters of the Bronx Household of Faith argue that the Department of Education is now in the inappropriate position of determining the difference between a worship service and an activity that includes prayer — something that might be different for every religion and congregation.
"In my 50s, for the first time, I can look at a woman and say 'she's really hot.' " Mr. Smith is one of thousands of men across the country, often known as "ex-gay," who believe they have changed their most basic sexual desires through some combination of therapy and prayer — something most scientists say has never been proved possible and is likely an illusion.
Here there is a tantalising glimpse not just of prayer being something we do to reach a distant God, but something that God does too, meeting us halfway.
No doubt their constant prayer ran something along the lines of "nothing tastes as good as God feels".
Mokhtar Badri, vice-president of the Muslim Association of Britain, is quoted by the BBC as saying: With all respect to sister Amina, prayer is something we perform in accordance to the teachings of our Lord… Women can lead prayers before other women but for this very specific point, in this situation before a congregation of men and women, a man must lead.
There is a way in which one wants to read Antwerp as affecting, like a prayer for something that has long since been fulfilled, because one knows the outcome of the struggle, not here, but later, when the masterworks come spilling out.
If God knows the future in all of its detail, then it seems that there is no room for petitionary prayers to be effective: either the thing requested in prayer is something that God already knows will be done, or it isn't, and either way, it looks like the prayer can make no difference.
Arizona State Rep. Juan Mendez (D) turned a Tuesday afternoon prayer into something much more.
She began my reading by pressing a stopwatch on her iPhone and started with a prayer, mentioning something about fish and feathers.
As the sun sets, a light shines in a 24-hour prayer room, something common in Western nations but a rarity here.
