Sentence examples for response to prayer from inspiring English sources

One involves apparitions; the second concerns statues associated with miracles in response to prayer; the third, as at Breezy Point, centers on an image of Mary that survives in some extraordinary way.

And clearly at once we are plunged into the first of the big problems, namely that of miracles — those of Jesus himself (the turning of water into wine at the marriage at Canna), his return to life on the third day, and (especially if you are a Catholic) such ongoing miracles as transubstantiation and those associated, in response to prayer, with the intervention of saints.

For a lot of people God is "out there," a beneficent overseer who intervenes in response to prayer with healing, hope, comfort and even fortunate "coincidences".

Most Mormons do not claim to have had heavenly visions like Smith's in response to prayers, but feel that God talks to them in their hearts and minds through the Holy Ghost.

The site, which is run by followers of Norman Vincent Peale, the author of "The Power of Positive Thinking," does not display responses to prayer requests, but users can allow others to contact them directly.

Consistent with the team's earlier repetitive prayer study, Schjoedt et al. found that the strength of neural responses to prayer were predicted by the frequency with which participants reported praying, suggesting a dependency of social-affective cognition on repetitive regimes, and presumably other social and educational externalities associated with religious enculturation.

In response to this prayer, fallen dancers cautiously picked themselves up from the floor in an attempt to gather together in a new spirit of harmony.

As Ms. Ahlquist explained to The Times about her response to the prayer: "It seemed like it was saying, every time I saw it, 'You don't belong here.' " The kindness, friendship and other values the prayer champions are universal, but a statement of religious belief has no place in a public high school auditorium.

This idea is in keeping with van Eyck's tendency in such portraits to present Mary as if she was an apparition materialising before the donor in response to his prayer and devotion.

In a report in the Austin American-Statesman, Bishop Joe Vasquez of the Diocese Austin told the newspaper that the effort "is part of our response to Jesus' prayer that 'we all be one.'".

I have a vivid memory of God's response to my prayers.