Sentence examples for state of prayer from inspiring English sources

"The Catholic church is stocked with different kinds of devotions and prayers, we pray to the Blessed Mother, different novenas, we have music that helps to keep people in a state of prayer, and then, after about two hours, we stop and maybe have coffee together or share some food that others might have brought to share".

Incense is a helpful tool for me in accessing this devotional state of prayer.

It's almost like living in a constant state of prayer, and doing so, Phipps continues, can inherently change your expressions of faith.

In essence it is a constant state of prayer, an inner emptiness that we carry with us, this space for the divine that is present amidst our daily activities, our work and family, shopping and cleaning, laughing and making love.

Smart's behaviour was probably influenced by St Paul's command in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians to "Pray without ceasing" and William Law's The Spirit of Prayer, which argues that a constant state of prayer will establish a connection with God.

A state of prayer or sense of union with God or mankind was found to be associated with the activation of several brain areas, under which the left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, the caudate and the orbitofrontal cortex 118, 119.

Just as each day is different, sometimes fog (we live beside the ocean), sometimes the sun breaking through, sometimes bright light, so the states of prayer change.

The generation of the God-image from the input is modelled by the links from the world states to the sensor states (including the sensor state of the prayer, representing hearing of a prayer of someone else or of oneself), and from the sensor states to the sensory representation states of the (general) God-image, God actions and God emotions.

The atheist does not really show religious behaviour, although there is a preparation state for prayer.

Catholics are taught to forgive and pray for those who trespass against us, and the church itself is an engine of forgiveness that has the power to forgive our sins and return us to a state of grace through prayer.

Football Team Prayer The court will hear a Texas school district's appeal of a ruling that barred the practice, highly popular in the state, of student-led prayers at public high school football games.