Sentences with phrase «own prayer life»

Could this use of marriage as a symbol of salvation have a reviving effect on our prayer lives?

Solitude never feels practical, convenient or urgent, but our prayer life is crippled (or non-existent) without it.

For praying I am working to improve my daily prayer life.

My prayer life flourished the day I stopped anthropomorphizing God.

It reads the way people might tweet about their inner prayer life, updating their status with their deepest spiritual insights.

Cultivate a good prayer life and connect with the Holy Spirit, the greatest comforter.

By safeguarding the privacy of our families and friendships and the quiet humility of our prayer life, we direct our lives towards God and uphold the Christian virtue of modesty, in all meanings of the word.

Right now, England is firmly divided into two camps: those who think Messi is one of the Mr Men, and those whose prayer lives are currently focused on Wayne Rooney's feet.

In this study of Jonah 4:2, w see what Jonah does, and you will find it very encouraging for your own prayer life going forward.

Then I redirected my prayer life (still as an unbeliever!)

Your prayer life?

I have to find my own rhythm, and when I find it I know how to fit my prayer life in and how to fit in my devotional time as well as how to fit in bedtime stories.

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.

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.

This book will freshen up prayer lives with some great new strategies for novices and prayer warriors alike.

If the life of a tailor working from home was chosen to facilitate his prayer life, it is also possible that his choice was a convenient one for an introvert with little self - confidence.

This will hopefully change my prayer life.

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).

Although she had a solid prayer life, by the time she had completed her formal education at the age of 12, there was nothing about her that would make her stand out in a crowd.

It is not just the same thing as a nervous breakdown, for the latter comes to the religious and to the irreligious and may or may not have a relation to one's prayer life.

As we develop this constant awareness and the constant communication that Goes with it, and as we learn to pray the Scriptures, we will soon find that our prayer life changes, what we pray for changes, and how we pray changes.

Is your prayer life on the down slope?

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

To ask about someone's prayer life is to take one of the vital signs of the Christian life.

More than an intellectual manifesto, the invitation pledges signers to specific spiritual practices: maintaining a vital prayer life, conducting works of mercy and engaging in a regular Friday fast «as a form of prayerful resistance to the idolatrous practices of our culture.»

When this problem was worked through in counseling, vitality returned to his prayer life.

A man in his early forties consulted his minister because his prayer life had lost its meaning.

«Yes, my life is very busy, but if I spent even one - tenth the time I spend messing around on the internet in silent time with God, I could have a pretty solid prayer life.

Being reminded of the reality of spiritual warfare can also be helpful for our prayer life.

This study of Jonah 4:2 reveals what Jonah did, and you will find it very encouraging for your own prayer life going forward.

Effective pastors who do not «burn out» have generally developed a prayer life, moral virtues and spiritual practices that sustain and nurture them.

Without a prayer life we are walking around dead.

I have read a jillion books on prayer, and several had said that if a pastor doesn't have a great, private, prayer life he should not be a preacher.

«Fighting just didn't jibe with my prayer life,» says Christian MMA champion Scott «Bam Bam» Sullivan.

I craved structure, something to orient my prayer life.

My prayer life and church life us quite simple and sober, and also free of all Methodism and Pentecostalism, so I personally may not be able to relate to any of the things you mention.

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Being a cradle Catholic she was given catechetical instruction from a young age and was diligent in her prayer life.

Your prayer life will benefit from an earlier bedtime if you aren't getting eight hours.

Now that I do not watch nearly as much, my thinking is clearer, my relationship with God is more intimate, my prayer life more meaningful, my sleep is better, my temptations are fewer, I now have more time with Wendy and my girls, I have more hours in my day.

I was intimidated, and as a result my prayer life suffered.

In reality, I simply do not have the prayer life I should have.

Jesus understood what it meant to pray without ceasing, and these early mornings of prayer were a small part of His overall prayer life.

Mine has been made stronger through my prayer life.

Do not make excuses if you have a weak or even non-existent prayer life.

It improves my prayer life.

Your prayer life CAN be transformed from a tired and boring religious duty that you try to fit in to your busy day.

We ought never be stopped on the street and asked about our prayer life!

Forgiveness is an active instance of a deep prayer life.

In the light of this wider purpose it becomes apparent that the liturgical reforms envisioned by Sacrosanctum Concilium, however well or badly they may have been implemented, were motivated by a desire to make the prayer life of the Church more accessible.