Sentences with phrase «practice of prayer»

As we turn to the actual practice of prayer, we should observe that there have been two broad main categories into which the great teachers of prayer have divided this enterprise.

I was unable to wrap my head around the sacred practice of prayer.

Do you wonder if the ancient practice of prayer can be meaningful?

Such cathartic utterances are also an honest and courageous practice of prayer.

The vision of this church is to engage in those things which strengthen our primary identity as a family and which allow our pastor to attend to the primary practice of prayer, study of scripture, and teaching.

I think Julian would go on to admonish us in something like these terms: If you intend to encounter God who is the truth, you can not do so without the daily practice of prayer, no matter how truncated or inadequate it may seem to you to be.

Some religions say that the sun and the moon stand for the practices of prayer and meditation.

It is possible to become altogether too sophisticated about these matters; I wish to plead for simplicity and availability in the practice of prayer; and I believe that in the incarnate Lord, God has graciously given us just such a simple and available object for our contemplation.

The Christian believer is being prompted even more directly by the practice of prayer, the experience of worship, the contemplation of the Word of God in Scripture and by so many other epiphanies of God's glory, to discover the divine source of goodness, truth and beauty.

A closely related attitude which repels the mood and practice of prayer is self - sufficiency.

There is no way of knowing how many people have given up the practice of prayer because it seemed to them hokum — in plain language «the bunk» — but the number must run into many millions.

One of the aspects of modern life most detrimental to personality in general, and not alone to the practice of prayer, is that the individual person is so seldom alone.

The pastor should regularly offer guidance for the practice of prayer in sermons and in adult education courses.

Churches need to help people in the art and practice of prayer, but not by denying the reality of the world we live in, not by calling us into patterns or practices we can not possibly adopt without serious mind - bending exercises.

Bondi shares what she has learned about the practice of prayer from her study of Christian monks of ancient Egypt.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

Jesus did not condemn the practices of prayer, almsgiving, or fasting.

Arguments against atheism inevitably took the form of arguments from nature or design, i.e., philosophical arguments without reference to Christ, to the sacraments, to the practice of prayer, to the church.

Certainly trust extended to the God known in the experience of forgiveness would lead naturally to the practice of prayer, and the existence of the Lord's Prayer itself is evidence enough that Jesus did, in fact, lead his followers from the general attitude of trust to the particular expression of it in prayer.

To learn to pray means we must acquire humility not as something we try to do, but as commensurate with the practice of prayer.

Thus prayer is a genuine possibility and the practice of prayer may make a difference both to those who pray and to the continuing creative advance of the world in and under God's purpose of love in its widest conceivable sharing.

* Remember times you have wandered from your practice of prayer.

Your practice of prayer may change during Advent or Lent, or maybe with the seasons.

The practice of prayer can be comfortable, challenging, easy or difficult.

Petition and answer should not, of course, be regarded as the sole content of Christian prayer, but in the popular mind this has often been the case, and it is just at this point that secularization has greatly undermined the practice of prayer, and has made the Christian much more cautious about the forms of his petitions and the areas in which they may be regarded as legitimate.

Not only the way we read the Bible but also the practice of our prayer should be considered in the light of new challenges.

Researchers have found an inexplicable link between the practice of prayer and lowered blood cortisol levels and increased high - level cognitive capabilities.

The AHRC accepted oral evidence given by the Students and acknowledged the sincerity of their beliefs related to the practice of prayer in the manner and at the times they requested.

It is a practice that, though the God of the Bible urges and encourages, is nonetheless difficult because of human pride, past perceived negative outcomes of praying, feelings of inadequacy in the practice of prayer, and according to the Bible, possible spiritual opposition.