Sentence examples for spent in prayer from inspiring English sources

Time was spent in prayer.

However many hours were spent in prayer, sensuality was not overlooked, especially in the country houses of the privileged.

Virtually the entire day is spent in prayer at the synagogue; the closing service (neʿila) concludes with the sounding of the ram's horn.

Lee, armed with his middle-of-the-night musings and a new determination, described the long hours he'd spent in prayer, the many bishops he'd consulted.

You will find the time alone, spent in prayer or meditation, to be crucial in maintaining your emotional and physical health.

Untold hours are spent in prayer, possibly the most wasteful activity of all time, when, instead, hands could be put to work planting gardens, tending children, adopting shelter pets, cleaning inner cities, creating art and music, reading, inventing, and providing care to those most in need.

Dunstan's retirement at Canterbury consisted of long hours, both day and night, spent in private prayer, as well as his regular attendance at Mass and the daily office.

Although the day itself will not be spent in deep, contemplative prayer at a synagogue, I have spent quite a lot of time thinking through the many things for which I will be seeking forgiveness in these hours leading up to the day of atonement.

Pakistanis have spent days in prayer for her life as she lay comatose in an army hospital in Rawalpindi and, Monday, was put on a plane to London, under tight security, for a brain operation (the Pakistani government will pay her expenses), and have held vigils and marches in support of her vision of education for all girls.

George was deeply devout and spent hours in prayer, but his piety was not shared by his brothers.

In that outdoor cathedral, it was the enormous silence that surrounded me--and about 1 million other people--as we spent time in prayer and meditation after communion was distributed.