Sentences with phrase «than prayer on»

She considers recourse to the Hail Mary to be little more than prayer on autopilot, the rote droning of words learned and memorized as children.

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People retire on little more than luck and a prayer and are forced back into the workforce by the cold, biting wind of economic reality.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

If you are concerned that I spend time everyday in prayer or encouraging some poor soul as a waste that is a value judgment no different than a believer that looks down on what gays do in their bedrooms.

His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.

so prayers please, should i stay on disability, and i could whine and moan enough, and i am probably a fool for trying to be anything other than a disabled aids case with a disintegrating back and diabetes and brain damage who should not be testing my luck in nyc.

And while it is surely obvious that not everything can be covered in a discussion of this length, I would argue that the prayer and Bible - reading decisions of the early Sixties have had a far greater impact politically, culturally, and legally on American society than many scholars realize.

Instead of «the poor» as an abstract concept on our prayer list, they become people we are rooting for because we've chosen to invest in the relationship in more ways than one.

But since neither he nor his followers have so far not shown me a scrap of reliable evidences, and since I haven't seen any evidence that prayer is any more effective than wishing on a star, I doubt anything different is going to happen now.

When I talk to God in prayer, I am talking to something deep within the fabric of my own being and asking for a better way, a better idea, and intuitive thought rather than to have some trivial thing of substance delivered to me on a platter.

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.»

Despite the reliance on the gospel the directors state that the process of healing is much more than «praying the prayer» and seeking instant healing from all difficulties.

Mr Lutz is no different than most religious folks that seem to focus more on wanting to change the guy or girl in the pew or prayer rug next to them than on relationships with God.

I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother and father, sister and brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in you Father, I send up a prayer request for financial blessing for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to.

Rather than just leave a comment on his post, which I have, I want to post about it myself.Toby rightly points out that the great American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr created the now famous «serenity prayer», used by Alcoholics Anonymous for years.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

I realized this as I reflected on these texts — Solomon's prayer for wisdom rather than riches, Jesus» parables of treasure and pearl and fishes, and Paul's affirmation that God works for good with (or for) those who love him.

I grew up believing that you were better than us because surely you spent hours and hours in study and prayer and reflection on The Things of God.

Maybe our children would be able to hear honest faith rather than vacant words in our prayer that God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

«Similarly, there is more to the Prayer Book than the words on the page.

If you are a believer, please use your prayers for important things rather than on show - business sports that involve doping and corruption.

There is a chapter on the hindrances to prayer which are other than intellectual, two on procedures in private prayer, and one on corporate worship from the congregational end.

(Acts 1:24 - 26; I Timothy 5:5) Prayer was the affirmation of confident trust, the centering of attention on faith, not fear, on assets rather than liabilities, on the help of God rather than the troubles of life.

So that even though the end result can only happen on a personal level, it is definitely better than nothing and it's not like for those others that getting their own perspective through study plus prayer plus trying out the gospel principles is unavailable because it is it available; quite available.

People who replace a typical five - minute extemporaneous prayer with a set of five or so collects often remark on the experience of spending that much time in prayer thinking about God rather than about their own needs.

My prayer is that you are living in a beautiful world today, one that is filled with so much more than black marks on white paper.

Similarly, if we can see evidence on a biofeedback thermometer that something other than the physical is affecting body temperature, the metaphysical possibility of prayer's efficacy may be close at hand.

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

So since this is the most powerful of the prayers god uses, other than being called out on sins that need repenting how is this prayer dangerous and going to ruin our lives?

He should be sitting on a chair beside the bed, rather than standing, partly to show that he is not administering medicine but mainly to suggest that the nature of his ministry is through conversation, talking and listening, and other procedures like prayer and reading which also involve verbal means.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not beliPrayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not beliprayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

It has taken some time for seminaries to comprehend Underhill's ideas, and many have not yet done more than present a course on prayer, monasticism or spiritual discipline once every few years.

More often than we're comfortable admitting, I think, we find ourselves feeling what many recent theologians say we should: a twinge of uneasiness at speaking of heaven outside of church; the sense that Jesus» death and resurrection can't quite be brought to bear on our daily routine, our social life, our moneymaking, our recreation; an inability to see with the heart the goodness of the Good News; a certain emptiness in our prayers.

Male spirituality is often characterized as more comfortable with a hammer on the church roof than a prayer book in the pews.

And, if you imagine self as much broader than your inner life, but as continually created by your interaction with others, prayer (or self - talk) takes on a whole other meaning.

... and how much worse it would be if she had relied on prayer rather than science - based medical care for her child.

On the night He wrung sweaty, bloody prayers out of His soul in the garden, He wanted the heart of us broken and the will of the Father more than He could stand being without any one of us.»

While I have a deep appreciation for beautifully worded prayers (and share in them on occasion), I'm convinced that the prayer the Father longs for is one of childlike simplicity flowing from a heart of confidence and trust in the One who knows us better and more intimately than we know ourselves.

Several years back I did a study on that book and discovered that his prayer contains is more about himself than anything else.

In a thousand cases across America, in incidents as far - ranging as Boy Scout meetings, public prayers on the Fourth of July, and the display of religious symbols on public buildings, Americans are losing the same privileges by whispering rather than giving voice to their protests.

Here's the point: Whatever Tim Tebow's motives might be (and I think they are pure), his prayers on the field tell the world that God hears and answers the prayers of some people more than those of others.

while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any different, or try tp put christians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»

«His prayers on the field tell the world that God hears and answers the prayers of some people more than those of others.»

The funding for this style of theological reflection is, then, from the imaginative genres of Scripture (parables, stories, confessions, prayers, and so on) rather than from philosophical concepts, the other major source for Western theology.

I grew up believing that you were better than us because you spent hours and hours in study and prayer and reflection on The Things of God.

And yet what the pope did on Pentecost Sunday in St. Peter's Square was more than a simple prayer for someone to get better.

The same Directory also speaks of the spiritual climate in which alone there can be a successful ecumenical reception: «The life of faith and the prayer of faith, no less than reflection on the doctrine of faith, enter «into this process of reception, by which the whole Church, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit... makes her own the fruits of a dialogue, in a process of listening, of testing, of judging and of living.»

So if that sounds better than burning forever in hell, then come on forward while the band plays some nice music, and a counselor will be more than happy to speak with you and lead you in a prayer.