Sentences with phrase «not prayerful»

Some kind of religion - police pointing out your violation such as lack of faith, not prayerful enough or having unconfessed sins.

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They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

Would it not be better to continue with the practice of entrusting these children, «with prayerful hope», «to the mercy of God» (as we do in the funeral rite established for them) rather than putting forward our own presumptuous speculations on their fate?

Include times of praise, thanksgiving and contemplation, and prayerful meditation on Bible passages... but not all at once!

Not only Notre Dame, but also the Church and the community at large, have lost a powerful and prayerful voice for these precepts.

A prayerful reading of Salvifici Doloris shows that John Paul not only lived the Gospel of suffering himself.

But such times, as needful as they are, are not necessarily any more sacred or any more prayerful than other times.

I also liked being in a prayerful environment alongside others who, like me, saw theology not merely as a career but also as a vocation.

Coakley adumbrates a feminist corrective to feminism: power can come from vulnerability — from prayerful vulnerability, which is not, say, submission to a Mother Superior.

I have friends who are devout and prayerful Christians but who sincerely do not accept certain doctrines of the Catholic Church, and so continue within one of the various other Christian denominations.

The ones listening have not been the «establishment», or the intellectuals but, by and large, the humble and grateful people of God — loyal priests desperately trying to hold the line in their parishes, seminarians despised by their professors, Anglican converts seeking the clear truth, devout teachers in our schools, prayerful parishioners, and members of the new movements have been enthusiastic for this teaching.

But it bears witness to a well - defined presence, and permits prayerful communion (which is not eucharistic communion, because it permits spiritual communion with the Person of Christ).

When he accepted that invitation, Dolan said his appearance would be prayerful, not political, a sentiment reiterated by his spokesman in announcing his appearance at the DNC.

Not content, however, with these impressive evidences of a prayerful people, Bush three days later announced at a prayer breakfast (with Billy Graham again at his side) that February 3 would be an official day of prayer for peace.

The second is like to this: the sheer happiness of seeing in the lives and personalities of good men and women, especially the younger ones, a deepening beauty, closeness to God, willing and prayerful service, and not infrequently the giving of their own whole lives as a total vocation to God in the closer, apostolic service of religion.

«The way of Jesus can not be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.»

You can not boil down Christianity to the parts that you are unashamed to speak about in the presence of your intelligent gay neighbor or your prayerful lesbian church member.

Not only, then, had the Donatists» conception usurped Christ's unique mediation, but it also undermined the prayerful efficacy of Christ's ecclesial Body.

That «tells us this is something that's not isolated,» Johnson told CT, and thus churches should be «prayerful and concerned.»

toujoursdan said, on October 1st, 2009 at 11:46 am But again, a growing number of Christians have read Scripture with a prayerful heart and DO N'T believe that God says that monogamous gay relationships are a sin.

But again, a growing number of Christians have read Scripture with a prayerful heart and DO N'T believe that God says that monogamous gay relationships are a sin.

My plan was to provide prayerful support regardless of his policies, some of which I agree with and some of which I don't.»

We believe that those who do not allow us to make our own prayerful decisions about our relationship with God and neighbour, so long as they don't hurt others, may be intolerant, though.

The prayerful cry, «Not mine, but thy will be done,» has come from the lips of Christian as well as non-Christian men of prayer, ancient philosophers, and the pious men of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religions.

Our prayer is that we would continue to grow with our children, rediscovering the God of the Bible in a new and wonderful way, and to parent with the Bible as our handbook - not a parenting program; to parent with prayerful hearts, according to our God - given personalities and our own cultural heritage.

The softer, prayerful passages of Bring Him Home aren't nearly as effective.

(Sometimes Ruth couldn't stand it and had gone outside, despite her mother's prayerful begging, to watch and listen to the dogfights in the sky, the white vapour - trails scratched against the blue, the black trails of planes falling, the awful hesitations of engine - noise that meant one of ours or one of theirs was falling, a man in a machine was burning down.)

I once thought the same thing myself, but after prayerful re-examination of the history of America and searching the scriptures, I don't believe that is true anymore.

Their core principles of providing professional therapy, intensive marriage therapy in a group, hospitality, sequestered space, and prayerful action are not seen anywhere else in my opinion.

I realize it's not optimum to have packed boxes and not much staging but this is a working farm and am prayerful God is in the details.