Sentence examples for write a prayer from inspiring English sources

A few weeks earlier, Ms. Olson had asked the same group to write a prayer on the theme "If," inspired by the Rudyard Kipling poem of that title.

The woman was to wear white to bed all week, and write a "prayer list" of goals, wrap it in $900 cash, put it in a jar, add water and a little spit, and sleep with it under her pillow.

Visitors are invited to write a prayer from any faith tradition, or a message of peace and hope, and visitors have shared inspiring quotations by Abraham Lincoln and Albert Camus among others.

In the fall issue of At Random, the company's magazine, Mr. Bissinger, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, is featured in a cover story about his five-year effort to research and write "A Prayer for the City," a story of urban Philadelphia and the efforts of its charismatic Mayor, Edward G. Rendell, to lead a city of warring factions.

"Once, a hospital rabbi asked me to write a prayer to be used when a child was being taken off life support," he recalled solemnly.

If you have prior warning, you can write a prayer and memorise it beforehand.

John wrote a prayer for families.

So I wrote a prayer about some wire cutters.

At the bar, one patron wrote a prayer and placed it in the spot where the statue once stood.

I wrote a prayer we'd find some scissors and get out!" A week later, only moments after the concert was over in Monterey, he called me in New York from a phone backstage.

"I say this as a writer who's spent 40 years of my life trying to perfect the craft," said Mr. Bissinger, who also wrote "A Prayer for the City," a carefully observed portrait of the former Philadelphia mayor and current Pennsylvania governor, Ed Rendell.