Not exact matches
So how do you go
from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like
prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so,
even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».
To atheists,
Even when
prayer was removed
from public schools, it didn't affect me.
The only
prayer available to you is the sinners sincere
prayer of repentance, without turning
from your filth you have nothing not
even your pink unicorn.
Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional
prayer book to soften or
even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body
from the dead at the end of time.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your
prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or
even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are
prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you
from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them
even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or
even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
And the Bible says that man does this because they prefer darkness, the opportunity to rob and cheat and hurt and lie to each other apart
from God, apart
from prayer and apart
from caring
even about their fellow man.
I could go on with examples
from my life about how
prayer was answered, and answers were provided without my
even praying.
Proverbs 28:9 If one turns away his ear
from hearing the law,
even his
prayer is an abomination.
Aside
from the fact that all the people in the study were still people with a disease or injury to combat and recover
from for likely the rest of their lives
even after the
prayers.
Far
from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings
even close with a recitation of the Lord's
Prayer.
«When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes
from you;
even though you make many
prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood» (Isa.
For me, the three most important moments in the day are my morning
prayer — a habit learned
from my parents — our
evening family
prayer (
even when the children often behave badly!)
I know we can not forestall, still less dictate to you,
even the smallest of your actions;
from you alone comes all initiative — and this applies in the first place to my
prayer.
The mosques are the centers for
prayer, teaching, and service in the Muslim world and are recognized as the distinctive symbol of Islam
even though they differ considerably
from country to country.
The early
evening prayer is three kneelings and is offered between sunset and the vanishing
from the horizon of the twilight.
In that sense,
even in her private
prayer she can be said to be set apart
from all and yet united to all.
(E.g., Hebrews 9:13 - 14 Christianity left the rubric of bloody altars far behind, but mental patterns are too stubbornly persistent to be so easily cast off, and
even yet semimagical ideas concerning the potency of blood,
from the earliest documents of the Old Testament, are woven into some Christian hymns, sermons, and
prayers.
As I sat in Adoration one
evening, I witnessed a constant stream of people
from the street coming in, kneeling at the front for a moment or several, writing a
prayer or moving back to sit quietly in a pew.
Here, though no longer
even able to stand, she benefited
from being part of the spiritual community, attending Mass and
prayers in the chapel in a wheelchair.
I'm not sure how that relates to the topic anymore, except thinking about the praying morning and
evening and table
prayers, brought down through the generations, makes me think of my parents and grandparents who taught them to us and prayed them with us, diligently and who certainly would be hurt by our going
from them to a thousand Hare Krishna's every day.
On a late November
evening in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, Celestia Ferris, chief washer - woman at the Bureau of Engraving, organized a
prayer meeting not far
from the U. S. Capitol.
When you spread out your hands in
prayer, I will hide my eyes
from you;
even if you offer many
prayers, I will not listen.
Why should their religious beliefs be exempt
from scholl when they took Lord's
prayer out of our schools and
even some Gov» t buildings to segregate the church
from the schools.
Sunni Muslims are killed, tortured, they were
even forbidden
from carrying on Eid (Holiday)
prayers last month and that was applied to every single Sunni Mosque in Iran.
By beginning with the Spirit, we can rediscover charismatic, passionate
prayer in the Trinity, which again shifts the emphasis away
from scholasticism (male) and toward embodied,
even erotic, experience (female).
Then we will never come away empty - handed
from prayer, because
even if we wind up with none of the things we thought we needed, we will always wind up with God listening, attending and answering our
prayers in ways we hadn't imagined.
Even those who were inclined to condemn the new liturgical translations out of hand - often the same who muttered about the Pope's visit - have had to concede that there is a majesty in the Eucharistic
Prayers which was missing
from the former version.
...
even if we are prevented
from clarifying our minds by talking things over, we can still pray, and it is only in the spirit of
prayer that any such work (intellectual discussion with the world and risk saying controversial things) can be begun and carried through.37
Then I heard the two strange sounds I still associate with
evenings in Igbaja: first, fruit bats pinging in the dense mango trees overhead, and then,
from the big mosque in the center of town, the distorted hiss and crackle of the recorded muezzin, calling the Muslim faithful to
evening prayer and» I couldn't help thinking» if necessary, to holy war.
Whatever results you're expecting
from prayer would be the exact same if you prayed to Odin, or Ra, or Zeus, or
even the sun, and we all know the sun is really there.
Immediately after he entered the outer court of the Temple, he drove away the money changers and the merchants who sold birds for sacrifice, giving as an explanation a quotation
from Isaiah 56:7: «
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
prayer.»
Following this come three collections of extracts
from later portions of the book, designed for devotional use by Sikhs, particularly for
evening prayer and before retiring for the night.
It should be as the
prayer says, «I take
from your hands my illness and all I have to suffer; and when you call me at last, I will accept
even my death
from you to make up for my sins.»
Ironically, there are complementarian churches that forbid women
from reading Scripture aloud in church,
even Scripture like Miriam's song, Deborah's song, the reflections of the Shulamite girl in Song of Songs, the
Prayer of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1 - 10, and, of course, the Magnificat — all of which reflect the thoughts and ideas of women.
These additional funds were «offerings» for which the people received additional services, such as baptisms, marriages, funerals, a personal Mass
from the Priest, extra
prayers said by a Monk, or
even the forgiveness of sins.
The person doesn't walk away — despite hard work, despite
prayers for a miracle and bargaining with God, despite making vast improvements in learning daily living skills
from a wheelchair, and
even despite, at times, some measurable return of arm and hand function.
Not sure it's all that accurate to regard
prayer as some sort of socio - political action,
even if many people
from all walks of life do try to use it as such.
National
Prayer Day is for «every one» to include «all reilgions», all non reiligious groups and
even the non belivers of anything close to religion.It is a time as a Nation to jointly fall to our knees and to seek guidance
from a «Power» that we accept is greater than us as individuals or as a group and that we accept has created us.
Prayers from a Muslim imam were tolerated,
even welcomed, when we were collectively mourning this great tragedy.
All I know is that me and my family have lived an air and
prayer for the last eight years, i can't
even think of how we managed to still be in our home, with food on our table and still together in the terrible economy handed down to president Obama
from his predecessor.
And if my pastor then is as good as the ones I have now, he will know that one never awakens a Christian man
from a good sleep,
even for his
prayers.
Most broadcasters now conduct regular market research to detect which aspects of the Christian message will evoke greater response
from their audiences,
even to the point of evaluating the acceptability of a particular host's
prayers.
The song (transparently a
prayer,
even if you didn't know how Cohen introduced it in concert) moves abruptly, psalm - like,
from this submission to the divine will to a pleading, complete with desperate deal - making, for that will to change:
If you have no money yourself, how about a
prayer,
even something as generic as «please save us
from our President,» would be better than nothing...
Noonan wrote a dissent
from the appellate court's opinion that the firm could not require its employees to attend company
prayer services,
even though the owners allowed them to sleep, read, or otherwise ignore the service so long as they were present.
Each time I hear this
prayer or the passage
from Romans upon which it is based, I am drawn back to those
evenings.
But I do know it won't happen by
even more furious denunciations of others, by focusing on politics rather than
prayer, by concerning ourselves with the sex lives and heretical thoughts of others rather than with the constant struggle to liberate ourselves
from what keeps us
from God.
Before I close let me use this very auspicious moment to on behalf of my colleagues in the National Assembly
from across party lines congratulate His Excellency, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the executive Governor of the State of osun for attaining this milestone, my
prayer for you is very simple but
even in its simplicity it is very powerful and that is, May the best days of your past be the worst days of your future.
You've probably noticed that Vrksasana becomes a little more difficult to balance in when you bring your hands
from your sides to
prayer position at your heart, and
even harder when you take your arms overhead.
Learn to control stress by exercise, plant based unrefined mostly raw diet, good quality supplements, morning and
evening meditation (
prayer) and reading the Bible (starting
from the Gospel of John).