Sentences with phrase «sense about prayers»

There is actually nothing religious except in a conventional and formal sense about prayers of petition as just described.

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And that is why, in our prayer at the altar, we ask that the consecration may be brought about for us: Ut nobis Corpus et Sanguis fiat... 3 If I firmly believe that everything around me is the body and blood of the Word, 4 then for me (and in one sense for me alone) is brought about that marvellous «diaphany» which causes the luminous warmth of a single life to be objectively discernible in and to shine forth from the depths of every event, every element: whereas if, unhappily, my faith should flag, at once the light is quenched and everything becomes darkened, everything disintegrates.

And so a person's mental health problems become masked and exacerbated by all the theological explanations about god and prayer on account of the sense of awe which a person feels regarding these matters.

Speaking about the importance of prayer during this difficult time, Rev Long said that while it may be hard knowing what words to say to God, people should pray that «some sense of peace for those that have suffered so much might emerge».

As he tells Christianity about his own journey of faith, he reveals a passion for theology and prayer, and a profound sense of commitment and calling to social justice.

One should no doubt think twice about offering up someone else's confessional, but it seems likely that the prayer Moses Herzog offers to God could be spoken by Bellow as well: «How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense.

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.

By and large, most christians» talk about their prayers, or prayers in general, made no sense to me.

God makes sense to me under the trees, and God makes sense to me in poetry and prayer, and God makes sense to me in Eucharist and Baptism and community and even creeds... but not in the offering plate, not in the building campaign, not in the pastor - who - shall - not - be-questioned, not in the politics, not in the assumptions about what a good Christian girl ought to be.