Sentences with phrase «place of prayers»

Although the makeshift memorial was a place of prayers, grieving and leaving behind respect for the victims, it was also a location in which both students and adults protested for a change in gun legislation and for better school safety.

I wanted to be able to tell you this story from the lofty place of prayers answered.

The simple act of praying God's Word back to Him can put us back in that place of prayer, surround us with the truth and promises of who He is and His love for us.

I love the place of prayer, and I believe in the impact it has in the earth.

For the Day of Prayer, they re-released research specifically about the place of prayer in America.

The attack has been condemned by Parish Priest Fr Anthony Nwankwo, who pledged that the incident would not stop the Diocese leaving its churches across the region open as places of prayer and sanctuary.

The prominence given to Holy Table or altar, to cross and candles, does not indicate so much that this is the place where the sacraments are celebrated as that it is the place of prayer.

At their best, the monasteries offered places of prayer, learning and support for the surrounding communities.

Verses of the issue; Al - Baqara sura 02: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Remember We made the House a place of assembly for men and a place of safety; and take ye the station of Abraham as a place of prayer; and We covenanted with Abraham and Isma`il that they should sanctify My House for those who compass it round or use it as a retreat or bow, or prostrate themselves (therein in prayer).

Instead of a place of prayer and devotion, it is now devoted to profits.

What is at issue here, is that a White supremecist went into a Sikh place of prayer, and shot them, clearly targeting people with beliefs different from himself.

As a result, there was even a short - lived British organisation called the Wayside Cross Society, aiming to promote their erection both as memorials and places of prayer.

We place no expectations upon a person but merely hold each individual in a place of prayer and genuine support wherever they are at on their journey.

The remainder of this book will be given to further and detailed development of the definition just suggested, to the ways in which we may pray in words and in thought, to the place of prayer in public worship and above all in the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper — which all Christians save the Quakers and the Salvation Army know to be the central act of public worship, however much they may sometimes slight that importance in church practice — and finally to see how it all «fits in» — how faith and action are related to, and find fulfillment in, prayer both private and public.

It is somewhat like Muslims pray toward Mecca, Jews often refer to prayer as praying looking toward the temple since the temple is the place of prayer in Israel.

The chapel, with stained - glass windows, burgundy carpeting and a wooden alter, provides a place of prayer and religious observation for anyone regardless of faith or culture.

If such a program arouses opposition, as it is likely to, this calls for the tactful but courageous insistence that the house of God is a place of prayer and service for all peoples and the Church of God can not sanction discrimination at any point.

The synagogues were places of prayer, reading the Law and instruction.

Close by, however, was the local synagogue — at once school and place of prayer — where every Sabbath he could worship God and hear the Law read, and come to know what he had to do and avoid doing in obedience to God.

Comes in a beautiful box a with affirmation card and a Sri Yantra on the back to use for your altar or place of prayer.

Priestess with a Sri Yantra on the back to use for your altar or place of prayer.

She also writes that as a result of the fracas «the authorities have come across as hostile and the faithful no longer have their place of prayer.»

For the artist, this was the perfect evocation of the chasm that exists between the message of peace promulgated by these religions, the meditative ambiance of their places of prayer, and the violent history that has ever accompanied their expansion.

Not exact matches

At the place where Jesus was buried, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, bells compete in aural space with Muslim prayers over loudspeakers.

IHOP is a 24 - hour prayer center that has not closed its doors since it initially opened in 1999 — a place of refuge regardless of the time, weather or season.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

In a properly celebrated Mass, the vocalized dialogue of prayer between celebrant and congregation takes place in a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the Mass..

If there is a God and he is truly just, he will judge me based on my merits of helping fellow humans and making the world a better place to live, not how many times I dropped to my knees, clapped my hands together and chanted prayers.

This is the real - life consequence of placing your faith in prayer.

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

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...

The monastery was a place not only of fervent prayer but also of loving care for the city's poor and needy.

Our prayer (and the prayer of the folks at Mars Hill) is that in the months and years ahead, people will remember what took place on «Porn Sunday» and that it is OK to say the word «porn» at church.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if these great tourist attractions could become places of pilgrimage, pulsing with prayer and prophesying to the culture once again?

If you have just said that prayer, you no longer have to fear the possibility of making the personal decision of going to a place where God is not at.

I believe that God can (and does) perform miracles in this world at various times and places, often (but not always) in response to the prayers of His people.

Considering that the temple was an official place of religion, it is surprising how much of this recognition of the true character of Yahweh has been preserved in these prayers for humble persons who need salvation from the wicked.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

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.).

There still remain places and occasions when a designated person of faith is called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.

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.

but graduation is a school function and is no place for prayer of any faith.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

If the scriptural pattern is consistent the answer is that it must be men, appearing in a place of worship or otherwise who are presenting thoughts to God, e.g. in prayer or meditation.

> All Thursday talks take place at 7.30 pm in Turnbull Hall, University of Glasgow Chaplaincy, 13 — 15 Southpark Terrace, Glasgow G12 8LG and are followed by refreshments and Night Prayer.

Thomas Merton, another prophet and master of prayer, describes what happens at this place of darkness: «Love gives an experience, a taste of what we have not seen and are not yet able to see.

The only petition of the Lord's Prayer with a condition placed at the conclusion is the one about forgiveness.

He is the author of Food in God's Place, a dialogue between a young woman and Jesus about prayer and fasting in context of discipleship.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets speaks of Little Gidding as a place «where prayer has been valid»; there are churches like that, too.