Sentence examples for while in prayer from inspiring English sources

He related to his companions that on a certain day, while in prayer, he seemed to see Christ with the cross on his shoulder and beside him the Eternal Father, who said, "I wish you to take this man for your servant," and Jesus took him and said, "My will is that you should serve us".

While in prayer camps, Appiah was tied with ropes for over two months, and forced to take harmful local herbs, which caused side effects to her tongue.

Seamus Heaney's sonnet The Shipping Forecast focuses on the union of soft voice and strong weather, while Carol Ann Duffy in Prayer cherishes the far-off place-names heard from home.

John Paul led Catholic clergy in the lower church of the basilica, clad with frescos by Giotto depicting the life of St. Francis; in rooms nearby, Jewish leaders stood in prayer while Muslims knelt on rugs on the stone pavement.

So the anecdotes in "The Diana Chronicles" wind up varying from credible to melodramatic to weirdly sitcomlike (Diana clobbering Charles with a Bible while he kneels in prayer?), although many reveal Ms. Brown's fine ear for casual snobbery.

Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, arrested while he knelt in prayer outside the police department the month after an officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, was found not guilty of failing to obey police orders.

He carves while Jocelin loses himself in prayer.

Schoolchildren in Bhopal clasped their hands in prayer, while people in Brussels linked hands to form a human chain before that city's World Trade Center towers.

Players for both teams knelt in prayer while a fog descended from the night sky toward the wet grass.

She arrived before dinner and expertly massaged my back with oil while murmuring to herself in prayer.

Washington is prominent in the foreground, eyes closed and hands locked in prayer while in the background a forest of trees bears the images of other black children's faces, their eyes brimming with the same fervent yearning.