Sentence examples for praying for something from inspiring English sources

The Grammys are known for throwing artists together and praying for something magical.

Tottenham are praying for something miraculous, but are also preparing for more mundane, but more important, games to come, starting with next week's north London derby.

In time he found something more: During a snowstorm in 1996, Mr. Greek knocked on the door of a neighbor he had seen around Athens, a single mother with two teenage children, carrying a full-time job plus graduate classes, who was at that very moment (he would learn later) praying for something to get her through the winter.

Since then, "I've been praying for something to come through," Brooks said.

So if you are praying for something, trying to get, attract, achieve it or draw it to you, and using prayer either as a supplication or beseeching of something outside of you, you're already praying amiss, because true prayer is an activation.

"We prayed and prayed for something to happen," Pan said.

Tells about four woman who got together weekly to pray for something or other that they needed or wanted.

"I think I did believe it up to the age of eight or nine, when preachers said if you really, really pray for something it can happen.

The sites are not all Christian, but most share a belief that if more people pray for something, it has a better chance of happening.

By Sally Benson The New Yorker, July 29 , 1944P. 23 Tells about four woman who got together weekly to pray for something or other that they needed or wanted.

He remembers his grandmother telling him that if you prayed for something hard enough it would happen, so he prayed Hitler and Mosley would die, but they didn't, so by the age of five he'd finished with religion.