Sentences with phrase «of praying men»

The birds look out at me, at the man holding his iPhone to the wall so a distant friend can pray into its mortar, at the Israeli soldiers completing their training and swearing to die for their country before this last remnant of the second Temple, at the masses of praying men and women — the women in a smaller area, separated from the men and further from the holiest part of the Wall.

Not exact matches

Many of the downtown investments create that new, fun experience: There's a giant praying mantis statue, imported from Burning Man, that breathes fire, giant board games in the backyard of a lounge called the Gold Spike, and there's one live music venue and another in the works.

Imagine how surprised those men were to find out what a fuss ensued because of their praying.

Hardly, after man came up with then disregarded as utter nonsense the previous 10,000 or so gods in existence, we decided not to jump on the current bandwagon claiming salvation for the believer and damnation for the rest... Pray tell, what became of all the people who had never the chance to hear of his words / deeds after he came and died?

The Bible teaches the hypocrisy in men that prayed in public to get the public's attention and to seem wise in front of their eyes.

Matthew 6:5 - 6: «And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men... when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...»

I pray more will pay no attention to those who would attempt to rob a man of His faith in God's TRUTHS.

As one Muslim scholar put it, «Shari`ah instructs man on how he should eat, receive visitors, buy and sell, slaughter animals, clean himself, sleep, go to the toilet, lead a government, practice justice, pray, and perform other acts of [worship].»

They did not do it to cause a stir, they did it because they are religious men and they pray at certain times of the day.

The man is still the president of our country... not to mention that praying to those ends is witchcraft.

Just a few would be teaching things either not in the Bible or are anti-Biblical... veneration of Mary... praying to a priest when 2 Timothy clearly says there's only one mediator between man and God (Christ Jesus)... the Pope... indulgences... and the biggest difference is works righteousness (infused vs. imputed righteousness).

It was your Military Service men overseas who helped me understand and find Christ - in Kosovo of all places!!!!, and I am from ireland... I pray for these angry folks....

Ten years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens of millions of men and women around the world who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through death into a new life of freedom in the blazing glory of the Thrice - Holy God.

What would be a breath of fresh air is that if this man is a Christian, then he would pray in the name of his Lord, Jesus Christ and not face censorship by the Obama regime for doing so.

A.W. Tozer got it right: «The kingdom of God, has suffered a great deal of harm from fighters — men who would rather fight than pray; but the kingdom of God has also been done great harm by men who would rather be nice than right.»

Unfortunately many can not accept the thought of praying to a middle eastern looking man.

«If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another» Epicurus

Archbishop François Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân: Let us pray for all the men and women of the world, especially for minors who are victims of abuse, for the poor, the alienated, the disadvantaged; let us pray for those who are most defenceless, the unborn killed in their mother's womb or even exploited for experimental purposes by those who abuse the promise of biotechnology and distort the aims of science.

«He's one of London's most inspiring young men, encouraging his listeners to vote, pray and speak openly about mental health and their issues and problems.

Lott (the righteous) offers his two v - i - r - g - i - n daughters to the unruly crowd to Genesis 19:9 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

«If I felt that prayer existed for the purpose of changing the mind of God, then I would never pray, for how could I presume to interfere with the sovereign and holy councils of Almighty God... Men do not frustrate the plans of God, but rather it is God who frustrates the plans of men.&raqMen do not frustrate the plans of God, but rather it is God who frustrates the plans of men.&raqmen.»

You can forgive and pray for this man, but he needs to get out of the business!

I think you all need to stop worring about the president and pray for him you all have been on the mans back ever since he step foot in the white house everybody needs to do what the word of GOD says which is to «work out your own soul salvation with fear and trembleling.»

Rev.'s Adam Smallbone, for instance, regularly prays like a man at the end of his rope, genuinely unable to see a solution to his problems without the hope of divine intervention.

The group of women, who call themselves the Women of the Wall, went to pray in Jewish shawls known as tallitot that Israeli law says only Jewish men can wear there.

Also, Jesus was a man of prayer and often stole away time to pray, and yet Paul — in all his talk on prayer — never appeals to Jesus as a model for praying.

And I know my farming man is praying at the end of the table, giving thanks for the food, for us gathered, but all I can hear, all you can hear, is this ocean of abundance kissing the shores of everything:

But in the very moment of the rejection of God by man, Christ - who is both fully human and fully divine — accepts the rejection and turns to God praying for the forgiveness of humanity «Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.»

Lazarus in his evident need lay in plain sight as the rich man «dressed in purple and fine linen feasted sumptuously every day,» an echo in Greek of how Jesus had taught his disciples to pray for their «daily» bread.

Many theologians think that it is unworthy of man to plead for the goods he needs, to pray, to take the posture of a suppliant or a beggar (though the Beatitudes bid us do just that).

when one recognizes the errors... then they can change... you however are coming from other direction with this judging about INTENTIONS of the people who want to pray... you assume they all do it only to be seen and such... man..

So I got down on my knees and prayed for God to teach me to love like Christ loved and that's when it started less than an hour later I was given the chance to love someone that I would call unlovable like christ loved this man was lying about me to the point it could have ruined my career of 10 years.

No more sarcastic picture was ever drawn by Jesus than the portrait of a man who went up to the temple to pray and «stood and prayed thus with himself» — a mean and self - centered act of worship.

Shazza — if I might offer an explanation of a possible reason why a man might have had to pray with you when another man came to pray.

I think that without a doubt that praying such prayers for oneself can be nothing less than a absolute positive for the Kingdom of Heaven and the Christ like servitude that Christians should have for their fellow man.

The changing meanings of holiness in the Bible are thus among the most indicative signs of progress, and obviously by the time the Isaiah of the Exile wrote, some men were praying in secret to the holy God.

There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit of celebration at the court, praying for help in the king's need and for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the common man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness, suffering, and drudgery of daily life.

At Sinai it meant the approach to Yahweh of a single representative, who spoke for all the people; in late Judaism and early Christianity it meant the immediate access of soul to Oversoul, spiritually conditioned and inwardly achieved, each man for himself «praying in the Holy Spirit.»

23 If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, 24 and he is merciful to him, and says, «Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; 25 let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor»; 26 then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

The man who considered prayer «the Church's banquet» and an «engine against th «Almighty» provides in these pages an example of how to pray unceasingly; intercession, praise, and thanksgiving are always on the parson's lips.

That men should pray for the reform of the social order is generally recognized, but it is less commonly recognized that on the reform of the social order depends in considerable measure the spiritualizing of prayer.

The individual attention of the worker who helps «pray him through» plus the act of actually asking help from God often bring the man to a conversion experience.

Accompanying such developments as we have noted in the substance of Biblical prayers, an even more profound change was in process: praying, employed at first as a means of persuading a god to do man's will, grew to be used as a means of releasing through man whatever was God's will.

Religious members of the movement are embarking on our 40 Days for Life campaign, in which we pray, fast, hold vigil, and perform community outreach, all in service of saving men, women, and children from abortion.

I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.

Interestingly, the first thing that jumped in my head from the bible, about how to pray, was the Tax Collector and the Pharisee... it took a Google search to come up with verses, and it also jogged my memory to the song «Pride (In the Name of Love)» by U2, in which I thought the lyrics «one man come in the name of love, one man he come and go» in part was a call - out to that story.

The crude superstition of man's prayer as a means of instructing God or altering his intention was overpassed and praying became both congruous with the Christian idea of God and effectively powerful in spiritual result — «Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.»

So Jeremiah's companions in disaster asked him to pray that «God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do» (Jeremiah 42:3) With God conceived as infinitely wise and good, reasonable prayer must be conceived not as a means of forcing on God the bidding of man, but as a means of releasing through man the purpose of God.

Give me a church for women where there are nude pictures of men and the female Pastor says «Damn it» and the visitors are still in their benches, not praying for her but for themselves.

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