Sentences with phrase «than prayers for»
If you recycle a single sheet of paper, you will have done more for your country than all prayer for it combined.
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Most small - business owners need a bank loan at one time or another, and applying for one involves much more than filling out paperwork and saying a prayer.
Prayer is for more than asking God for something, but also finding solace for where you are at a certain point in life or even within the day.
«If you lust for someone other than your wife, what you do is replace that lust with prayer.
unfortunately (for you), more Americans are learning about fasting, monotheism, daily prayer and family values of Islam, than they are about taqiyya and sharia!!
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».
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.
Women having babies they don't want or can't provide for, demonizing the use of condoms spreading aids and STDs, and claiming problems can be solved by prayer rather than science.
The problem is this: when prayer is born of urgency, we're dictating the questions God needs to answer rather than listening for the counsel He wants to give.
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.
Prayer is no more effective than wishing upon a star and evidence that your good shepherd watches out for his flock is non existent
To test the thesis of the power of prayer and the notion that learning is product «God's gifts» rather than humanity's strivings, pray for a proof, disproof or proof of the undecidability of the Riemann hypothesis.
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.
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.
People pray for their golf - score, so you would think their prayers during tornados and hurricanes would be much more earnest and heart - felt, yet christians have no more ability to survive natural disaters than the general population.
because we know how much effect prayer has ever had: absolutely none (other than keeping a lot of idiots occupied for a while, and a few other non-divine side effects)
Even back during my most fundamentalist / evangelical / pentecostal years I felt that, rather than being for the purpose of entreating God to intervene in circumstances or change others, prayer was a way to draw strength, comfort, courage, and wisdom for dealing with those circumstances.
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.
So for all your faith, prayer, and scripture study you don't actually have any more of a clue how the universe was created than anyone else.
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.
During our conversation, he spent more time decrying rioting and calling for calm and prayer than lamenting the modern - day lynching by law enforcement of innocent black bodies that are piling up across the nation.
But more than just pray for them, and more than just believe that God will give them food and clothes, why don't you actually be an answer to your own prayers and your own faith, and give them food and clothes!?
Fifteen years of parish ministry have made this parson no less Pauline, no less Augustinian, no less a believer in the common prayer of every person for a Savior, than he has ever been.
Given the range of forms, uses and attitudes of prayer, the poverty of a monochromatic prayer life seems tragic and wasteful: at the risk of sounding too pragmatic, prayer could be serving many more functions for most of us than we allow it to.
This language has stuck in my head for more than forty years: «First they would teach you the prayers and the Psalms, and that would be the right door (the one with the circle) and the long sweet words with the holy sound, and that would be the one to jump at to get where the food was.
(and quite arrogant to say the least that God has nothing else to do than watch a game and root for whichever team gets the most prayers for a win.
Of course, Madison ultimately did more than beg for pity and prayer.
There is more power (and more mystery) in prayer than most of us realize, but as you say, God is not obligated to give us what we ask for.
This planet, the level of harm and exploitation, the fact that the suffering of other creatures is needed for carnivores (many humans) to live tells me that those consciousnesses are not any more interested in answering the prayers of humans than the symbiotic bacteria that help us get by in our bodies.
They want some big splashy teaching, like for instance — a course in miracles, rather than putting into practice in very practical ways with the people around them what the Isaiah says God requires (i.e. — love, patience, prayer, meditation, hopefulness, justice, etc).
So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.
Christians might be better served looking to Christ for an example and examining their own lives for what their faith calls sin, rather than wasting time chasing the sin of others, even if only in prayer.
and from your description were praying in vain rather than truly seeking for wisdom... so no PRAYER did NOT do this... just becauise some ABUSE it..
Because people do not correctly understand prayer (basically, that it's more like «telling God what it looks like he is going to do» than «asking him for a favor»), they are most - sorely disappointed when it ends differently.
If you are a believer, please use your prayers for important things rather than on show - business sports that involve doping and corruption.
I think that without a doubt that praying such prayers for oneself can be nothing less than a absolute positive for the Kingdom of Heaven and the Christ like servitude that Christians should have for their fellow man.
However, the Twenty - third Psalm, probably known to more persons than any part of the Bible except the Lord's Prayer, is ideal for this purpose.
Rather than show people how to pray without ceasing, they teach people that there is a time and a place and a particular method for prayer.
Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.
(Deuteronomy 7:12 - 16) With these for the main objects of petition, prayer was naturally evoked by their lack, and it was typical of early Hebrew as of all immature praying that the negative rather than the positive purpose of prayer was prominent.
The purpose of this survey has been less to present a scheme or pattern for praying than to try to understand what prayer is.
A «revival» of prayer will not do, for while some previous periods have been more given to prayer than ours, the world has never had what our present need now calls for.
When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.
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.
Hence non-liturgical prayer may well in certain cases be holier and of greater value for the Church than liturgical prayer.
Who would deny, for example, that the prayer of a martyr in his lonely prison cell before his execution, in which he unites himself completely with the death of Christ has greater dignity and validity before God and for his Church than many liturgical prayers?
Having now practised mindfulness for more than a decade, mainly through a Christian form of mindfulness known as centering prayer, Annie sees mindfulness as «a lost strand of evangelicalism and the Reformation».
Islam has also introduced moral values higher than those of heathenism; it has prohibited adultery and wine - drinking; it has introduced cleanliness through its required ablutions; it has introduced fraternal gatherings for prayer; and it has created a spirit of cooperation in the agricultural communities of Africa.
But if he has been answering the prayers could they start praying for a cure for cancer and the genetic code of algae that make gasoline and how to grow food in salty soil and lots of other stuff that is more important than mankind's salvation?