Sentences with phrase «prayer of thanks»

I murmur a prayer of thanks that mine aren't carrying all those spare tyres.

They are all firmly in my hear to one degree or another... all the same, can we all join in a prayer of thanks for a world where «have your fighter bring the enemy to one hit point so your healer can finish them off and get some battle XP» is no longer the only valid balanced leveling strategy?

There are times, as you round a steep corner, you'll feel the urge to do what so many of the local people do when navigating the bends, the dips and harrowing passages on this primitive rout; genuflect and send up a little prayer of thanks when you've made it to the next spot that isn't clinging to the edge of a hundred foot drop safely.

When I go to bed tonight, I will say a humble prayer of thanks to the active management community for providing the public such an efficient market.

We all held hands while Jost said the prayer of thanks.

At nine years old, I knew enough about my mother's life to say a prayer of thanks that at last she had got something she wanted.»

My first encounter with the term grace came when I was a young child growing up in a faithful Catholic family where we said a prayer of thanks before dinner, which we referred to as «saying grace.»

In my Bible reading time at night before bed, I am guilty of quickly reading God's word and going to bed, with barely a prayer of thanks for the day or telling God how I really feel.

You can do this silently (or if you're in like - minded company) connect with your eating companions and say a prayer of thanks and gratitude.

Wake up with a prayer of thanks.

During a recent visit with Argueta, Catana held his shoulder and the two men slowly and emotionally chanted a brief prayer of thanks in Spanish.

It is a prayer of thanks to the Lord for the gift of a child.

On this day, we offer a prayer of thanks that so many people of faith have chosen to join us in the spirit that animates so many religions: the golden rule to do unto others what you would like them to do unto you, and a belief in equity, charity, and the elimination of unnecessary suffering in the world.

Once the well - wishers are gone and the cane laid aside, Jack Layton may well send up a little prayer of thanks for the very outcome he campaigned against.

But our prayers of thanks can become quite repetitive and boring.

Traditional prayers are prayers of thanks; indeed, mourning is suspended in Shabbat liturgies.

As I lay in bed last night saying a few prayers of thanks and a few petitions for those that I know need it I thought «gee, wonder when Layla's husband has his audition?

Not exact matches

«We're living in what I like to call the «Thank You Economy,» because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old - fashioned way — and do it authentically — are going to have a prayer of competing,» says social media expert and author of the book The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk in a recent Entrepreneur.com column.

And I want to thank everyone across the country for their prayers, their donations, their act of kindness.

Thanks to those witness testimonials, Christian Scientists the world over eschew modern medicine in favour of magical prayer healings — and die when they get a real illness.

We thank God for the years of prayer, study, and conversation in the project known as «Evangelicals and Catholics Together.»

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

The second and third levels of this great prayer are said with a heaving exhalation of breath, the expulsion of bellows — THANK you, whooooosh.

But let me toss up one prayer of thankfulness for us all: Thank you God that our twenties are hard.

«Thanks» is the short form of the original prayer I used to say in gratitude for any unexpected grace in my life: «Thankyouthankyouthankyou.»

As I grew spiritually, the prayer became the more formal «Thank you,» and now, from the wrinkly peaks of maturity, it is simply «Thanks.»

Thank you for your kindness and prayers and may each one of us on this website find a niche full of peace, love and gentleness within a church they are comfortable with.

So impressed was he by the beauty of these laws that he wrote this prayer in his treatise Harmonices Mundi (The harmonies of the world): «I thank thee, Lord God our Creator, that thou hast allowed me to see the beauty in thy work of creation.»

Thanks to Bob Carlton of The Corner for creating this video using my «Prayers from the Cell» series.

I remember being a little embarrassed; I heard echoes of the Pharisee's prayer in the temple (Luke 18:10 - 14), a sort of litany of privilege which sounded to me like: «Thank you that we are citizens of this great country.

We always include poetry and a time called «Open Space» in which we slow down for prayer and other opportunities to actively engage the Gospel; writing in the community's Book of Thanks, writing prayers, making art or assembling bleach kits for the needle exchange in Denver.

Thank you Jeremy for waking that up in me and it has caused me to bring this man before the throne of God in prayer and thanks giving.

Thank you for reading, for commenting, for our funny and deep and weird conversations on Twitter and Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, for your emails and letters, for your support and critiques, for showing up to the events in churches and community centres where I stumbled over my words and hugged you a bit too tightly and likely cried, for buying my little yellow book, for your prayers for me and my family, for staying with me, really, for all of it.

I do not see any thing bad in those prayers the bible says we should be imitators of Christ that is the work of a christian on earth so don't run from any thing that bring glory to the Lord thanks

There is pathos in this prayer of Jesus, where he thanks God that he has revealed the truth at least to this precious little band of people (Matt.

Thanks for the heads - up, I'll be very mindful of these prayers in the future.

To thank God for his bountiful provision for our needs with no thought of the many who suffer is a form of self - centeredness contrary to the mood of true prayer.

Clement, furthermore, refers to the «paideia of God» and the «paideia of Christ» and closes with a prayer thanking God for sending us Christ «through whom thou hast educated and sanctified us and honored us.,» In this Clement echoes the frequent use of paideia by the Septuagint and by Ephesians.

(Acts 4:24 - 31; II Thessalonians 3:1 - 2) Prayer was thanks giving and praise, the joyful overflow of gratitude and hope, even amid difficult or desperate circumstance.

So I see prayer as a tool to help focus our energies using themes from the bible but that ultimately we'd grow and progress into other forms that did nt require speech as a show of how pious we are — thats the danger of prayer imho that we can be doing it for ulterior motives and end up like the Pharisee who said thank God I am not like the sinners.

When Jesus set in contrast a self - righteous Pharisee, saying to God, «I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men,» and a contrite publican, praying, «God, be thou merciful to me a sinner,» (Luke 18:9 - 14) he was both summing up the best of his race's teaching on the true spirit of confessional prayer and indicating to his disciples the self - depreciation which must follow any such estimate of personal worth and possibility as he himself believed in.

So expensive was that call that the waggish prayers of some modern Jews can thank the Lord of the Universe for the inestimable privilege of being chosen as Jews and then move on to ask him to «bestow on us a greater honor yet.

And each time, I peered into the face of the one receiving the gift: a lanky boy with pimples and bangs avoiding my gaze; a pretty girl, no more than 13, tears brimming in eager, thankful eyes; a guy wearing his Bama cap because he heard I was a fan, whispering «Roll Tide» as he dipped his bread in the cup; adults receiving with a grateful familiarity, mouthing «thanks be to God» and folding their hands in prayer.

And finish your prayer, by thanking our Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ.

At bedtime what bliss to look back and thank God that one has, at last, had a day worthy of a minister's vocation: plenty of prayer, plenty of study, plenty of service, plenty of family, and no conflicting demands from any person or group.

Quite the opposite, I thank them for their prayers, mainly because I look at it as if those who pray for me are showing a type of compassion.

God desires the «sacrifices» of prayer and thank offerings for salvation.

Not many of the prayers of Jesus have been preserved, but we can be grateful for the fragment which represents him as saying, «I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes.»

Thanks no doubt to all your prayers and crossed fingers, we got the grant from the Science of Virtues people at the University of Chicago.

«I thank thee, Father,» he is recorded to have said, in one of the very few echoes of his personal prayers that have come through into the gospels — «I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and wise, and revealing them to the simple.»