Sentences with phrase «of evening prayers»

«It might be all the times I sat through an hour of evening prayers because I happened to be talking to a potential actor and they needed a 10th man for a minyan [a prayer quorum].

The Pope will now meet Archbishop Williams» family before heading across the Thames to Westminster Hall to address MPs, ahead of evening prayers at Westminster Abbey.

Kaldi dutifully reported his findings to the abbot of the local monastery who made a drink with the berries and discovered that it kept him alert for the long hours of evening prayer.

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Even lifelong pro-gun supporters are speaking out in support of common - sense gun laws, because let's be honest: «Thoughts and prayers» never were enough.

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

Even on the National Day of Prayer.

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».

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatiEven when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatieven introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

He even deleted whole pa.ssages like the story of the adulteress in the Gospel of John in which Jesus declares «Let him who is without sin cast the first stone» and Jesus's prayer on the cross, «Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing «since, according to Schlafly, «the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing.

Today is an «Evangelical Day of Prayer and Action for Immigration Reform» in Washington, D.C., with many evangelical luminaries, and even more evangelical activists, hosting advocacy worship services and lobbying Congress for immigration legislation that would legalize the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S..

When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.

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.

lol... you making up a load of BS that's not even part of our beliefs... when we prayer... we ask that God gives you wisdom and insight... you still have a choice in the matter... so really you got nothing on us... you wan na avoid prayer cause it seems you think it might be real and it might make you go to hell if you don't heed... sorry... that don't change abit

Prayer is also not limited (nor should it be) to asking for things that you want to happen; prayer is an open and direct communication line to your heavenly Father and Creator, and you may want to tell him how you feel sometime, even if you think it's a bunch of nonsense and you don't think he will Prayer is also not limited (nor should it be) to asking for things that you want to happen; prayer is an open and direct communication line to your heavenly Father and Creator, and you may want to tell him how you feel sometime, even if you think it's a bunch of nonsense and you don't think he will prayer is an open and direct communication line to your heavenly Father and Creator, and you may want to tell him how you feel sometime, even if you think it's a bunch of nonsense and you don't think he will reply.

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...

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

Whether I was writing for school, a fictional story for my personal entertainment, processing through my teenage years on my Xanga / Myspace blog, or even in college in my English classes, I found myself feeling an overwhelming sense of urgency to spew every single occurrence, happening, decision, prayer and thought onto paper or onto a digital document.

How odd that Paul of Tarsus didn't even know «The Lord's Prayer» (Romans: «we do not know how to pray or what to ask for»), words allegedly right out of the mouth of Jesus (according to Matthew & Luke).

He said that would include «prayer throughout the day and the liturgy of the hours, morning prayer, evening prayer, Mass every day.»

The point is you claim that your god is omniscient and omnipotent so therefore knows of amputees and could heal them, you also claim that prayer works (even though an omniscient god should be aware of all problems).

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.

We should not underestimate the capacity for public inscriptions to be unnoticed after their initial construction even by those that lived their lives surrounded by them (it is indicative of this that in the process of destroying Alexandrian Jewish prayer halls (39 CE), a mob of gentiles seeking to promote the worship of Caligula actually destroyed dedications to previous emperors).

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.

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.

Each day there will be Mass, morning and night prayer and, on one of the evenings, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and confessions.

This is fascinating — I think a lot of people who are basically atheists «try» religion in this sense — reading sacred texts, reciting prayers, even attending church.

It will be an evening of friendship, prayer, stories, and listening.

The Daily Office, or the Divine Hours, consists of four times of prayer each day: morning prayers (Matins / Laudes), midday prayers (Sext), evening prayers (Vespers), nighttime prayers (Compline).

Even in the more secular setting of the Democratic National Convention, Obama hinted at an intense White House prayer life, along with his need for God's grace.

«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.

Even when Christians are able to root out of their prayers all the repetitious mentioning of «Father» and «in Jesus» name,» it is still quite common for most Christians to end their prayers with the word, ``... in Jesus» name, Amen.»

If there is one thing the devil hates it's the word of God, but he hates prayer even more.

«Even though starting a government meeting with a religious prayer is offensive to many, considered a violation of our const.itution by many, makes many feel ostracized and as if their voice will not be given equal consideration to those who are religions, I think we should still start of government meetings with prayers because this is a country that believes in the free expression of ones beliefs and opinions without fear of percecution.»

Depending on the wording of a prayer, you can largely identify even the intended denomination that usually employes something like it, correct?

Newell presents a seven - day cycle of morning and evening prayers written in the «Celtic tradition,» which emphasizes the goodness of creation.

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.

But the Biblical concept of prayer, as practiced by Christ Himself as a model for us, is to seek and obtain God's will, and they pray for God's will to be done (even if that means going to the cross).

And even some of the wallet cards, The printer prayer to St. John Neumann, Bohemian bishop in round red cap; But numbers have no nationality.

Christians might be better served looking to Christ for an example and examining their own lives for what their faith calls sin, rather than wasting time chasing the sin of others, even if only in 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.

I can't even tell if they went into the cathedral or if anyone said a prayer, although I suspect both of those happened.

Through a faithful prayer life and regular Mass, Confession and Eucharistic Adoration we are filled with the Holy Spirit and the graces of God (even if we don't feel that we are).

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

Someone told me about their church holding a Blue Christmas service for those in their community who are grieving and longing at Christmas, unable to fathom the joy perhaps, and so they make space for prayer, for communion, for quiet, to hold each other, to light candles for their grief together for just an evening in the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the bright tinsel.

The virgin's recitation of the public prayer of the Church, even when prayed privately, unites her to the whole Body of Christ with whom she joins in the prayer of Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

Unlike many of them at that time, he loved a good liturgy (including praying the Divine Office with others, especially evening prayer sung before dinner).

(Acts 4:24 - 31; II Thessalonians 3:1 - 2) Prayer was thanks giving and praise, the joyful overflow of gratitude and hope, even amid difficult or desperate circumstance.