Not exact matches
A notable outburst came in 2010 when she linked
public Muslim
prayers in the streets
with World War II and said it was «an occupation of sections of the territory.»
All too often, though, our elected officials respond to
public health crises like gun violence and firearm - related deaths not
with action — but
with deflective statements that inevitably include their thoughts and
prayers.
The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance
with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on
public property, holding
prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of
prayer in
public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
The tolites are the dirtiest spot in any house or
public places... Where their is that dirt you find all evil what ever you callingvjinn or spirits or ghosts all ends up to do the same
with out being seen... it is the place where before you enter you say
prayers before you enter otherwise you will not be alone and even if untouched you will be watched and maybe possessed... good and bye for now to all thanks.
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 government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative
prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a
public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions
with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»
Today, the Supreme Court finally weighed in on the hotly debated Town of Greece VS. Galloway case, determining that
public meetings can start
with «religion specific -
prayer» (i.e. «In Jesus» name...»).
Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending
prayer in
public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset
with the cultural changes sweeping the country.
The Supreme Court's 5 - 4 majority sided
with Greece, saying that Town Hall meetings can start
with prayer — falling in line
with both
public support and the White House.
The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal
prayers in
public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others
with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping
with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict
with strict separation.
Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the
prayer I passionately disagree
with, yet barred by
prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at
public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»
I think you should have the right ot counter it
with a statement criticizing the idea of God and
prayer in
public meetings or schools or any gov» t led group meeting.
Right now, this definition «is» your «rights» associated
with prayer in a
public meeting...
It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate
public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the practice of their faith, such as
prayers and the religious tax, and look after affairs of
public interest
with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.
and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed
with personal
prayer, had furnished for many people a
public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion
with the lament «We have nothing to bring but
prayer.»
The virgin's recitation of the
public prayer of the Church, even when prayed privately, unites her to the whole Body of Christ
with whom she joins in the
prayer of Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit.
You know they're calling you a heretic behind closed doors and in
public they've put on their smile and explained that David is not longer
with us because of personal reasons and pleas be in
prayer for him... SPLAT!!!
This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF),
with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and
prayer, relinquishing any form of
public ministry.»
Prayer changes things
Prayer takes many Biblical forms
Prayer is talking
with God
Prayer can be private
Prayer can be corporate
Prayer can be
public Prayer can be political
Prayer can be formal
Prayer can be casual
Prayer can be in
public schools
Prayer is not curtailed by the words of a man
Prayer is never stopped by an unbeliever
Prayer changes things
Public prayer ought to be beautiful, not
with the adornment of elegant phrases but
with chiseled simplicity of diction.
Their discomfort
with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school
prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the
public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).
The
prayer as it is commonly used, now as for centuries past, in
public worship agrees
with Matthew's version of it, cast in a form which no doubt had such use in view.
Guns are in schools because quite obviously kids are able to get them
with relative ease, not because the govt took forced
prayer out of
public schools.
The second part of the motion requested «the House of Bishops to investigate a means to develop sensitive, local pastoral arrangements for
public prayer and thanksgiving
with same - sex couples at these key moments in their lives, and to present their ideas to General Synod 2018,
with a view to making proposals at General Synod 2019.»
You may begin not
with a
public profession but
with a
prayer to the Light of the World.
If I had to rely on a relationship
with God by gathering
with a group of self riteous
public prayer performance artists, I would never speak to God.
Whatever fault we may find
with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient
prayer books required, at
public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»
The daily offices of morning and evening
prayer, the litany, the penitential offices, the provisions made for the care of the sick, the marriage of Christian people, the burial of the dead — these are all part of the great traditional experience of
public or «common»
prayer and praise, and they further establish us in relationship
with God in Christ.
In
public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed
with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common
Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.
I'll bet he prays that the US will become a theocracy, execute or oust all unbelievers, murder every gay person, force all women to give up contraceptives and become chattel, and insti t ute the teaching of creationism and intelligent design along
with forced
prayer in the
public schools.
The SCOTUS voted to let
prayer start
public government meeting
with a
prayer.
The first Congress encouraged him also to declare «a day of
public thanksgiving and
prayer, to be observed by acknowledging
with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God» — and this on the very day that the language of the First Amendment was approved.
Tried to talk
with them about it, but they're too busy asking me for things, and they never get around to listening... wouldn't like what I'd say if they did shut up for moment... think I'll send a mass email... (no, did that the other day to another group of my followers, the ones who continue to blame Satan and the Atheists for getting
prayer and «God» out of the
public schools... they just deleted the email as SPAM: 0 -LRB-...
Public prayer or church worship is the way in which we unite
with others in expressing dependence on this Love, opening ourselves to it, and willing cooperation
with it as «fellow - workers
with God.»
Then we have looked at
public prayer, saying a great deal about its congruity
with human nature and human life and attempting to show that it is both a duty and a privilege for anyone who would call himself a Christian in any serious sense of the term.
What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in
public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience
with a terrifying deity.
Providing for the spiritual needs of the non-religious not does not include trying to force them into some religion or participate in
public prayer ceremonies, it means helping these soldiers identify, live up to, and find inner - peace
with their values and principles, same as what it means for religious soldiers.
Here, then, are nine thoughts I want to share
with my fellow religious conservatives: 1) As a matter of political liberty I believe there are justifiable reasons to support such issues as
prayer in schools and
public displays of religious symbols.
Keep it at home, practice it all you want in your heart, but when it comes to voting for
prayer in
public school, or more military funding of Israel, make that vote
with everyone in mind, not just your narrow religious world view.
What is wrong
with tolerating a few minutes of
public prayer on this, the 10th anniversary.
The use of ancient
prayers in
public worship unites us
with our ancestors in the Christian way; modern
prayers bring us into contact
with the contemporary world and its needs, as well as
with our brethren across the world in our own day.
But granted this, the ordinary believing Christian will find today that those who are
with him in church will be, like him, concerned to grow in faith, to deepen their relationship
with God, and to learn from
public prayer ways in which their devotion, in private
prayer and otherwise, may be given more reality.
Above all,
public worship is the experience of sharing
with our fellow - Christians in an action that is distinctively Christian and which, by our very presence there, is to become (like all
prayer) an intentional, attentive, and conscious openness to the presence and action of God himself.
The expression of this dimension of
prayer, that we pray together
with the whole people of God, is brought to articulation in the liturgy, in the
public prayer of the gathered community.
Christianity, after all, requires Sunday morning church services complete
with public prayer, congregational singing, and pastoral preaching.
In the distribution of his hours, there was no hour of
prayer, either solitary or
with his household; omitting
public prayers, he omitted all.
My thoughts and
prayers are
with Officer Holder's family, loved ones, and the entire NYPD during this incredibly difficult time,» said
Public Advocate Tish James in a statement.
The program will start
with the Muslim call for
prayer and a
public sundown
prayer by Muslim rally participants.
He sought, among other
prayers in his suit, a declaration that his referral by the Senate and the Senate President's referral to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and
Public Petitions «for trial for expressing his opinion on the purport» of the bill «is an act calculated to interfere
with or likely to constitute a breach» of his fundamental human right to freedom of expression without interference.
I know that those who carelessly condemn him in
public, clandestinely go back to heal wounds knowing what the man represents, his affability, readiness to listen and reluctance to get emotional easily no wonder after years of intense condemnation, Prof Martey openly praised him for his humility and assured him of his constant
prayers to succeed.In our bid to get our parties to office, we must also consider the safety of our nation and the cohesion we've enjoyed so far.I don't think the Npp in its current state can manage its internal issues if elected into office let alone manage the nation.Our democracy shouldn't be toyed
with in the name of political extremism and unworkable promises.We don't need a leader who will establish himself by intimidation and force, who will choose henchmen around himself, create secret police and abandoned all pretence of consulting the wishes of the masses but will only expect regimented YES from us on all national issues like we seeing in the Npp today.