Not exact matches
But I think an
even more important lesson here is that we're pretty comfortable with the idea that our beliefs
expressed through
prayer don't impact the world very much.
Never did he take communion, and when his wife, Martha, did, he waited for her outside the sanctuary...
Even on his deathbed, Washington asked for no ritual, uttered no
prayer to Christ, and
expressed no wish to be attended by His representative.»
There is something about
expressing love and offering
prayers for those who are cruel and evil that makes
even the most virtuous Christian hesitate.
Even in some of the earliest psalms, for example, we are presented with
prayers that
express a deep feeling of aloneness and existential anguish, and an intense preoccupation with Yahweh» s significance for the suffering individual.
The basic religious instruction also includes instruction in ritual purification and in performance of the salat, the daily ritual
prayers, and in the proper way to formulate the intention to fast the following day, an intention which should be
expressed every
evening during the month of Ramadan.
As Ganduje started his remarks at the
prayer session, one of his aides handed over a cell phone to him
even as those present at the event
expressed surprise to hear the voice of the President.