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Example sentences for "prayer and"

  • Wherefore we must not think to sanctify the bread by this prescript word, “This is my body,” but by prayer and thanksgiving, as Christ did.

  • I know a mother who seeks to have a brief season of prayer and a text of Scripture just before going to dinner to prepare her heart to guide the conversation along spiritual highways.

  • By deep inward conviction, which increases as we wait upon Him in prayer and readiness to obey.

  • He had laid the foundations in the darkness of the pit of Hindooism, while the Northamptonshire pastors, by prayer and self-sacrifice, held the ropes.

  • But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.

  • There he lay, unable to articulate more than a word or two, but expressing by his joyful features union in prayer and interest in conversation.

  • It was his oratory, the scene of prayer and meditation, the place where he began and ended the day of light--with God.

  • The Prioress wondered why she had not heard the bell announcing their return, and calling to the hour of prayer and silence.

  • It is to relieve the dead by prayer and alms, two powerful means.

  • The monk, returning to the church, spent the remainder of the night in prayer and meditation.

  • At night he was put to bed in the barn with the servant lad, and that night he spent in prayer and groaning.

  • If they regard the whole universe as one long act of prayer and sacrifice, the idea is grandiose rather than pedantic, though the details may not always be to our taste[157].

  • He not merely sets aside the older religious rites, such as prayer and sacrifice; he does not prescribe anything whatever which is in ordinary language a religious act.

  • But in India mysticism was and is as common as prayer and as popular as science.

  • While from his shelter in the boughs The Vánar looked on Ráma’s spouse He heard the gathered giants raise The solemn hymn of prayer and praise.

  • Last night’s sad and solemn occasion was passed in prayer and meditation.

  • To avert the doom, he spent eight days in prayer and fasting.

  • First he would spend three days in prayer and praise of God, and on the fourth day he would return to his disciples and grant them instruction.

  • These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication.

  • This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting, and if we wish to see England won to Christ we must become reliable in prayer.

  • A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

  • To live in prayer and contemplation.

  • As his own spiritual experience increased, he recognised in this an onslaught of the devil, and betook himself to prayer and fasting in order to discover how they had laid themselves open to the attack.

  • Though lively and social in temper, he spent some hours every evening alone, in prayer and meditation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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