Sentences with phrase «most of my prayers»

But most of these prayers were memorized and recited, and were formal, ceremonial prayers for particular events and holidays.

In the first place, most of our prayers ought to be for the enrichment and control of the spirit so that motives, desires, and the spirit's use of bodily powers will be in harmony with the will of God.

My prayer life isn't great, and I imagine that most of my prayers are quite selfish as well.

Most of the prayers and hymns used in the churches over the centuries do not present the message of love leading to justice, but rather individualistic petitions to God, praise of God or sometimes a triumphalistic thanksgiving for being Christians.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

I guarantee that in most of these prayer times, someone will pray that God will help the people in your community with their problems and struggles.

Love, patience, a sense of humor, and most of all PRAYER got me through the tough times!

Not exact matches

We may all try to say our prayers and take our vitamins, but at the end of the day, most of us may find ourselves caught in the clutches of some unhealthy habits.

While he heard about a wide variety of habits, most nurtured their bodies in the morning with water, a healthy breakfast, and light exercise, and they nurtured their minds with meditation or prayer, inspirational reading, or journaling.

Most Canadians have some sort of connection with religion through prayer, as seen in a 2016 Angus Reid Institute poll.

I was taught as a child to pray to God and nothing / no one else and that I need not be in a Church or any building and that God hears all of our prayers, to have faith in following The Ten Commandments, to incorporate The Golden Rule, to be honest and true to myself and most importantly, to not judge others.

Permit not, I beseech Thee, O Lord, that Thy Son should be any longer despised by unbelievers, but do Thous graciously accept the prayers of holy men and of the Church, the Spouse of Thy most holy Son, and be mindful of Thy mercy.

i thought most airports had prayer rooms, there is such a thing as respecting the rights of other passengers.

I most commonly hear the thought that atheists are angry at God, had unanswered prayers, lost their way, need a support structure for their faith, etc. but I never hear anyone address the root of the cause for most atheists: there is no empirical, indisputable evidence for any god — and that matters.

Quiet time, devotional time, prayer time, personal time — whatever you want to call it, most of us are referring to something similar: a regular time when we seek to meet with...

«Most of all, our prayers and our sympathy go out to Bailey's family.

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.

Most religions accept the concept of a God so schools should allow a non denominational prayer period teaching children that there is a higher being.

Since the people are grouped by their countries, very little or no politics are discussed as most of the people are very much dedicated to perform prayers.

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...

Believe it or not, most men and women who take vows to be religious, do so in good faith and after years of prayer.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

For 2011, resolve to be here now, and to serve yourself, but do it in this most excellent way: by cultivating silence and overcoming time within one of the classic disciplines of daily prayer» where the pulse of the psalms calms the breath, the pockets of silence center the spirit, and the liturgical calendar frees us from the shackles of time.

The problem is, most of us ignore all that and approach prophetic texts simply with an open heart and prayer.

During the Vertigo Tour in 2005, after the release of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, most concerts ended with a deeply spiritual trilogy: the personal testimony of «All because of you I am» (the «I am» referring to the name God gave himself when speaking to Moses); the commitment prayer that was Yahweh; and their old favourite closer from the 80s, a communal Psalm, «40»!

Even back during my most fundamentalist / evangelical / pentecostal years I felt that, rather than being for the purpose of entreating God to intervene in circumstances or change others, prayer was a way to draw strength, comfort, courage, and wisdom for dealing with those circumstances.

Most often the effects of prayer are gradual, some so gradual that we may not see the results in our lifetime.

For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

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.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

It is no wonder that Mary's song of praise has become one of the church's most potent prayers.

«The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery.

We can, however, rest assured that no prayer is lost and that when we pray we are drawn into a vortex of power that is utterly unpredictable and the most secure place on earth.

It sounds crazy, but I spent three days at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama as part of my «biblical womanhood» project last year, and it was one of the most meaningful times of prayer and contemplation I've ever experienced.

Nicholaes Maes's painting Old Woman at Prayer has hung on my wall for years as a reminder of the many who, hidden and unrecognized, summon God's power into the world through words faithfully uttered over the most daily concerns.

And the point in his life which most vividly touches our own, qualifying him to be our priest, is his time of fervent prayer.

St. Teresa advises, «we must shorten our time of prayer, however much joy it gives us, if we see our bodily strength waning or find our head aches: discretion is most necessary in everything.»

However, most of Chapter Three is dedicated to the four Eucharistic Prayers.

Ascensiontide — this most profound time of the Christian year — invites a man or woman of prayer to make a turn on the path that reveals...

I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.

Christians who live where bombs fall in the streets and warlords bear weapons into the marketplace know the power of prayer more vividly and practically than most of us who know the securities of an affluent culture.

My prayer is that, despite our differences on the most foundational issues of faith, we can love and engage our Muslim neighbors.

The burden of that yoke is lightened again and again by friends and prayer, by faith and most of all by hope.

again, if they wanted to have prayer, they should have scheduled it before or after the graduation as most public schools will allow this for students of any faith.

Given the range of forms, uses and attitudes of prayer, the poverty of a monochromatic prayer life seems tragic and wasteful: at the risk of sounding too pragmatic, prayer could be serving many more functions for most of us than we allow it to.

One of Jesus» most memorable directives about prayer is the simple mandate, «Ask and you shall receive.»

The most impressive example is her account of the murder of her father - in - law, and the long hours of prayer she spent before the Blessed Sacrament which brought her to forgiveness.

They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.

Painted in egg tempura on wood, these tools for prayer and liturgy most often depict scenes of Christ, Mary and the saints.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.