Sentences with phrase «prayer itself centers in»

But prayer itself centers in relaxed quietness — in the interruption of our own feverish activity that God may have a chance to act in us.

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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.

Pride runs rampant in my mind, and I find a prayer for humility centered around this ancient hymn slows me down enough to open myself to God's steadfast transformation.

CNN: Dems: God never left our party Heads are bowed in prayer inside room 211 at the Charlotte Convention Center.

A Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2014 found that 45 percent of Americans — and a majority of Christians (55 percent)-- say they rely a lot on prayer and personal religious reflection when making major life decisions.

The Catholic Church is being invited to meet the risen Lord in Scripture, the sacraments, and prayer, and to make friendship with him the center of Catholic life.

He also founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an organization that encourages acts of justice rooted in prayer and respect for other religious traditions.

In 2016, he said that God had been «unjust with his son,» announced his prayer intention to build a society «that places the human person at the center,» and declared that inequality is «the greatest evil that exists.»

Dr. Mark Laaser pioneered the Christian response to porn and sex addiction in the 1980s and chides counseling centers like Pure Life for what he says is their near - total reliance on prayer.

For 2011, resolve to be here now, and to serve yourself, but do it in this most excellent way: by cultivating silence and overcoming time within one of the classic disciplines of daily prayer» where the pulse of the psalms calms the breath, the pockets of silence center the spirit, and the liturgical calendar frees us from the shackles of time.

Like observers at a chess game, some of the faithful quietly whisper their affirmations in their centering prayers and their daily mantras.

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.

Today, in the center of this great Chamber lies Billy Graham — an Ambassador for Christ who reminded the world of the power of prayer and the gift of God's grace.

But to make prayer mainly a matter of psychological analysis is to miss its true center in God.

Prayer, we saw, always centers in an I - thou relation, not in merely thinking about an impersonal Principle that might be referred to as «It.»

One of the commenters after Challlies» post also mentioned Richard Foster, Thomas Merton, centering prayer, contemplative prayer, lectio divina, and prayer labyrinths, which the commenter describes as efforts to «access God in a pagan / occult way.»

We do not need prayer — or at least, not much of it — that centers in observation of one's own inner states.

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

As there can be a time of companionable silence with a close friend or lover, so in «Centering Prayer,» the prayer of silence to the God within, a Hindu seeks God in silence in contrast to the verbal and outward worship to a transcendent God of thePrayer,» the prayer of silence to the God within, a Hindu seeks God in silence in contrast to the verbal and outward worship to a transcendent God of theprayer of silence to the God within, a Hindu seeks God in silence in contrast to the verbal and outward worship to a transcendent God of the West.

«Prayer,» as The Westminster Shorter Catechism puts it in matchless simplicity, «is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will...» (Question 98) It is the attempt to become consciously aware of God's presence, to discover his will for our lives, to surrender our vagrant thoughts and self - centered desires to his controlling purpose, and to find in him power for living.

He dreamed of «a congregation of mystics,» and quotes Quaker theologian Thomas Kelly, who says that at the core of every church lies «a blessed community» made up of mystics centered in prayer.

General Theological Seminary in New York City supports a Center for Christian Spirituality and continually provides courses that relate justice and economics to the life of prayer, discernment and stewardship.

I shared in centering prayer with Presbyterians and went on retreat with Episcopalians following the teachings of the monk Thomas Keating.

The prayers of the Church which have been used through the centuries, such as the English Book of Common Prayer, contain many moods but center in the adoration and praise which lie at the heart of worship.

Besides the fact its replacing a mosque thats even CLOSER to ground zero, besides the fact it has only one prayer room [its an interfaith center, not a mosque], and despite the fact many muslims died in the WTC attack, the opponents play the «Its too close» card.

The point is, they are saying, since the cross symbol can also be a religious symbol, then it shouldn't be allowed to be put up because THEY DON «T BELIEVE IN THAT... but the museum isn't setting up any alter or prayer center, it's a symbol to memorialize a national tragedy.

But it is still true that when the chief act of worship on a Sunday is in Anglican circles Mattins or Morning Prayer and in «reformed» churches a much more sermon - centered type of worship, there is also a liturgical or quasi-liturgical setting for the proclamation of the gospel.

Marty concludes: «Could the «just» language of prayer be a signal that we wish to remain in partial control and be just a bit self - centered, just a wee inhibited and uncelebrative?

«This has been an answer to prayer,» she said in a press release from the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), one of Abedini's leading advocates.

We noticed that in almost every case, there was an interesting spiritual practice rooted in neighbor - centered activity instead of the predominantly passive mode of prayer.

Then I heard the two strange sounds I still associate with evenings in Igbaja: first, fruit bats pinging in the dense mango trees overhead, and then, from the big mosque in the center of town, the distorted hiss and crackle of the recorded muezzin, calling the Muslim faithful to evening prayer and» I couldn't help thinking» if necessary, to holy war.

Pastors attest to the impact of mentioning the problem of sexual and family violence in a sermon or a prayer, or posting information about a rape crisis center or a battered women's shelter on a bulletin board or mentioning it in a newsletter.

In particular, the New York Police Department will be hosting its own ceremony, which will include prayers, at Lincoln Center on September 8.

«The greatest tragedy is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer,» Fernandes explains at an MBS center in Thurbe, one of India's largest red - light districts.

His first book, The Way of the Prisoner (Lantern, 2003), deals with centering prayer and abounds with examples of how ordinary Christians can practice what ancient monks did in their cells.

Mosques in China, as centers for spiritual inspiration and social activities, are used as a place of worship, prayer, and chanting — and also used as a meeting place, a school, a place to perform Islamic ceremonies, a funeral home, and a judicial court.

It is also designed with the prayer center for Muslims in the basement, so that when their brothers in arms set off a suitcase nuke in downtown at prayer time, the Muslims will be safe in the basement.

Rather, it centers the meaning of prayer in a relationship to God.

By shifting the center of prayer away from myself, I was able to pray, think and live in a far more selfless way than ever.

«The London Olympics will try to accommodate religious athletes with 193 chaplains, a prayer room in every venue and a multifaith center in the Olympic Village.»

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

Some time after morning prayer at the Maine Muslim Community Center on Andersen Street in Portland ended Monday, someone spray painted «Osama Today, Islam Tomorrow» and «Go Home» on the front and side of the building.

Sometimes people think that the goal of centering prayer is to silence all thoughts and be in perfect stillness.

The practice of centering prayer is the commitment to simply be with God in silence for 15 or 20 minutes once or twice a day.

The first occurs when Nathan, Hayat, and his resistant father attend Friday prayers at an Islamic center in downtown Milwaukee.

What we can do in prayer is to take our sexual instinct and let it find, for the time being, its center in a love that is utterly demanding and entirely good and which will purify human sexuality and rightly order and pattern it, although it will not destroy it nor remove its urgency and its physical accompaniments.

In short, the Psalms are God - centered, while Jonah's prayer is self - centered.

Irish Anglicanism was very much centered on the Book of Common Prayer, and in my experience of the liturgy, repeated time and time again, the words and concepts and images were like empty booklets that could slowly be filled with meaning.

First, the facts: The Cordoba Institute, led by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan, plans to build an Islamic community center with a prayer space included, in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center murderously destroyed on 9/center with a prayer space included, in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center murderously destroyed on 9/Center murderously destroyed on 9/11/01.

What does happen is that the desires and wishes of the praying person are gradually purged of self - centered and selfish elements; he comes slowly to see that he should pray, for his own condition and for others, for «an increase of faith, hope, and charity» — as the Prayer Book collect for Trinity XIV puts it — and in consequence come to conform his own desires and wishes to the ongoing purposes of God.