Sentence examples for solemn prayer from inspiring English sources

The faithful petitioner squats upon his haunches, he weighs and judges the path, he closes his eyes and silently raises a solemn prayer to me.

That verse reads: "While the storm clouds gather, far across the sea/Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free/Let us all be grateful for a land so fair/As we raise our voices in solemn prayer".

BEFORE the gates of the Dome of the Rock, a resplendent golden Muslim shrine built on the ruins of what Jews believe was their biblical temple, the besuited deputy speaker of Israel's parliament, Moshe Feiglin, this week swayed from side to side in solemn prayer.

Congress begins each day's session in solemn prayer; "God bless America" is a plea that comes automatically to any modern president's lips (along, in Bill Clinton's case, with biblical quotations and words of contrition); and among the nation's 100 senators only Colorado's Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Washington's Patty Murray admit to having no religious affiliation.

During a wake and funeral mass that combined dancing, singing and solemn prayer, several thousand people journeyed to the killing grounds to consecrate the soil and demand that the killers and their commanders not live untouched by the law because of the amnesty that was declared soon after the war ended.

In 1938, he added a stanza that seemed to discourage American intervention in the Second World War: While the storm clouds gather Far across the sea Let us swear allegiance To a land that's free Let us all be grateful That we're far from there As we raise our voices In a solemn prayer Fascism in Europe soon felt closer to home, however.

Yet some revelry persists among the solemn prayers.

Solemn prayers in the pews and folk dancing in the streets.

Along the way, he offered solemn prayers and resolute vows to deal with America's hidden enemies around the world, and he lent his voice and his moral support to a nation's anguish and to its apparent determination to strike back at terrorists -- twin themes in a country on the threshold of what Mr. Bush in recent days has called "the first war of the 21st Century".

She mumbles solemn prayers to the spirits of our dead ancestors, and to the all-compassionate Buddha.

It was the first year I actually sobbed at Yom Kippur services, the year when the words in the solemn Al Chet prayer, which chronicles no fewer than 44 possible sins, took on new meaning.