Sentence examples for requiring a prayer from inspiring English sources
Officials are also considering other proposals, like requiring a prayer during the ceremony.
Because, traditionally, it was thought that a sneeze expelled the soul from the body, requiring a prayer to recover it.
Mr. Zasorin, who rejoined the synagogue his grandmother attended when he was a boy, leads an aging congregation, called Beit T'Shuvah — House of Redemption — that often cannot muster the 10 men required for a prayer group.
Wilkinson has a revival-meeting manner that makes it seem as if he's offering a tit-for-tat with God -- you pray to him; he'll make you rich -- but he also says that the Jabez prayer requires an acceptance of God's will whatever its form, not the presentation of an itemized demand.
It means that effortful adherence to religious or philosophical dictums (often requiring meditation, prayer or moral education), though clearly valuable and capable of producing results, is not the only way to go.
They also say that requiring petitionary prayer in some cases helps us to learn about God's will as we recognize the patterns in prayers answered (and not answered: see Murray and Meyers 1994 and section 5 below).
He made more time for solitary prayer and reflection, even though his ministry requires a great deal of public work.
The ruling followed the Supreme Court decision in 1962 outlawing a required prayer in New York public schools and preceded a milestone 1971 ruling that declared direct governmental assistance to religious schools unconstitutional.
Government is wrong to impose its ideology or norms on us, whether through requiring prayer or through singling out religious activity for special prohibitions.
One that doesn't require you to recite a prayer each time you strap into your board.
