They prayed, but even their prayers meant nothing to them.
The men spoke about God and prayers and wives.
You stop praying selfish prayers like "God bless what I want to do."
In New Testament times, the Pharisees were pros at pretentious prayers. It became quite a source of pride. They were showing off, trying to impress people with their prayers.
These characters were mostly prayers by Shang rulers at divination and sacrificial rites, as well as simple records.
Night after night I prayed, with a fervour never previously attained in my prayers, 'Please God, do not let me wet my bed!
Mohammed made the people believe, that he would call an hill to him; and from the top of it, offer up his prayers, for me observers of his law.
Working men's Paris, with its Commune, will be for ever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new exterminators history has already nailed to that eternal pillory from which all the prayers of their priests will not avail to redeem them.
What prayers do you say?
While the participants lie in their coffins, monks chant prayers.
I will keep you in my heart and in my prayers.
On the prayer flags prayers and mantras are written; people believe that wind will spread the blessings to all.
The court in its ruling also gave “a new, very restrictive interpretation” of what practices receive protections, including morning prayers and religious instruction, Cardinal Zen said.
As a child born after the war, I used to see him every morning before breakfast offering up long, deeply-felt prayers at the small Buddhist altar in our house.
The cool night, like the rain, the drop of the lotus leaf sound, can, gather all my thoughts, prayers in front of the Buddha, bless: the green city is unscathed, the corridor of the pavilion is singing, the years are quiet, quiet and quiet.
This flow is brought out by prayers.
Some leave pictures of loved ones, amulets and prayers.
Hence, there is no greed in such prayers, but only Bodhi motivations and goals.
"Since I must die, " answered she (looking upon him with her eyes all bathed in tears), "give me some little time to say my prayers. "25
When best-selling author Bruce Feiler was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2008, he was thankful for the many prayers, postcards and casseroles that loved ones sent his way.
esp imperative in prayers
The flags are printed with prayers to purify the air and pacify the gods, and the wind blows the prayers to heaven.
One way is to use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries.
President Obama said his thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends who lost loved ones in the crash, and with the emergency workers who responded to the disaster.
This medicine may satisfy our prayers.
If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable.
Here is his final prayer and benediction. It is one of the greatest prayers in any of the epistles. Notice three wonderful statements.
Our thoughts and prayers are with them.
More tired than I thought I was, I said my prayers with Mom and Roger and settled under the covers.
My prayers were answered!
Better to use the Lord's payer of Matthew 6 as a model, or the Apostles prayers we find in the letters.
He had laughed at those who died with prayers on their lips.
After morning prayers, I saw this meaning on many faces.
The prayers were paeans to and wishes from the gods that had rather stable forms and idioms.
B: What does she mean "answered he prayers?" D: She's going to have a baby, silly. That's what my mother said when I was going to have a little brother. He didn't live long though. He didn't breathe right... 本傑明：“答應了她的祈禱”是什麼意思？ 黛西：她就要生小孩了，笨蛋。當我快要有小弟弟的時候，媽媽就是這麼對我説的。可是，他沒有活多久。他的呼吸不正常……
THE aftermath of the massacre at Virginia Tech university on April16 th, as the nation mourned a fresh springtime crop of young lives cut short by a psychopath's bullets, President George Bush and those vying for his job offered their prayers and condolences.
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