Sentence examples for quoted prayer from inspiring English sources

It is here, in her first quoted prayer, that you glimpse Mrs. McPherson's relations with her Maker.

She quoted a prayer told to her by a rabbi: "Let me not die while I am still alive".

Perhaps she understood how divisive a figure she was to become, when she famously quoted the prayer of St Francis after her first election victory, asking that "where there is discord, may we bring harmony".

Those stories of poetry and piquant humor, both written by Hanif Kureishi, explored immigration, racism, conflicting ambitions and unrequited desires during the harsh economic rule of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who Frears said once quoted the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi only to "systematically destroy" it with her policies.

Mr. King ended his Hawaii speech by quoting a prayer from a preacher who had once been a slave, and it's an apt description of the idea of America today: "Lord, we ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we ought to be; we ain't what we gonna be, but, thank God, we ain't what we was".

He described himself as lonely, thanked supporters for their comfort and prayers, and quoted from memory the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, about the nobility of persevering through tough times.

This time, a verse from the Jewish prayers was quoted, expressing the hope that all idols will perish, leaving God alone as the only true reality.

In his proclamation, Brownback quoted former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln on prayer and said that former President George W. Bush had issued a proclamation for a 2008 ReignDown USA rally in Washington.

Read the Bible: our bishop quoted Matthew 2 18 in her prayer, "A voice was heard in Ramah,/wailing and loud lamentation,/Rachel weeping for her children;/she refused to be consoled, because they are no more".

For years, I wanted a tattoo of the Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild of heart that are kept in cages".

Among her estimated 17 tattoos are the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me destroys me), the Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages", a Buddhist Sanskrit prayer of protection, a twelve-inch tiger, and geographical coordinates indicating the birthplaces of her children.