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Example sentences for "prayerful"

Lexicographically close words:
prayd; praye; prayed; prayer; prayerbook; prayerfully; prayerfulness; prayerless; prayers; prayest
  1. As he concluded, the prince passed from the apartment of the loyal old vassal, the latter sending after him a prayerful benediction.

  2. She was brought very rapidly to peace with God, and to a calm, sedate, prayerful state of mind.

  3. He acted on the principle, that whatever God has revealed must deserve our study and prayerful investigation.

  4. One soul, however, was, to all appearance, brought truly to the Rock of Ages during his and his friend's prayerful visitations.

  5. His own words will best show his estimate of study, and at the same time the prayerful manner in which he felt it should be carried on.

  6. I have many grateful and many prayerful remembrances of England and English friends, and a vivid remembrance of your kindness when I was with you.

  7. So I quietly pursued the college course till I entered on the last session, when, after prayerful consideration and mature deliberation, I thought it my duty to offer myself as a candidate for the ministry.

  8. And from her he derived that devoted spirit and prayerful dignity which gave him such unbounded influence in the church to which his life was consecrated.

  9. When my father turned his back, with a thought almost prayerful to the spirit of Shelley, I flung the Masonic cards overboard.

  10. And her simple, pious letter in return, prayerful with thanks to God for my conversion so signal--in secret cut me to the heart.

  11. Every Christian pilgrim, if he journeys aright, must be entirely guided by prayerful personal inquiries at the holy oracles as to his way to heaven.

  12. In most cases, they enter upon a course of study, to fit them for their momentous labours; but many of our most valuable ministers have, like Bunyan, relied entirely upon their prayerful investigation of the Scriptures.

  13. The great object of Satan has ever been to foster indifference, that deadly lethargy, by leading man to any source of information rather than prayerful researches into the Bible.

  14. It is clear and perfectly intelligible to every candid and prayerful inquirer.

  15. If Christians recollected with what anxiety their teachers prepared and delivered their sermons, how constant and prayerful would be their attendance on the means of grace.

  16. The prisoners are brought to trial, with all the forms and solemnities of law; and the narrative concludes with a most admirable charge from Emmanuel to keep Mansoul in a state of the most prayerful vigilance.

  17. Great enjoyments need the most prayerful watchfulness in going down from them, lest those three villains cause us to slip.

  18. When he entered the prison, his first and prayerful object was to levy a tax upon his affliction--to endeavour to draw honey from the carcass of the lion.

  19. These men had thrown off the fetters of education, and were, unbiased by any sectarian feeling, being guided solely by their prayerful researches into divine truth as revealed in the Bible.

  20. The whole of this beautiful passage is worthy our careful study and prayerful obedience.

  21. His earnest attention to sermons, his occasional remarks on their evangelical and practical character as profitable, and his prayerful reading of the Bible, showed the influence divine truth was exerting upon him.

  22. We most earnestly commend to her prayerful contemplation the last words of our blessed Saviour to his disciples, "In my Father's house are many mansions.

  23. Mr. Uncannon had given it his most prayerful consideration.

  24. He replied that though his mind was about made up, still he felt that so solemn a connection ought not to be made without a prayerful consideration.

  25. Come, marquis, enter my paradise, and I pray you to encourage a solemn and prayerful mood.

  26. Be pious and prayerful on this spot," said he; "we stand by the grave of my most faithful friend, who is enjoying before us the happiness of everlasting sleep.

  27. Tess couldn't separate the three--the prayerful mood died with the toad.

  28. The books treating of devotion to the Virgin brought him excuses, joyful raptures, a wealth of arguments which he repeated with prayerful fervour.

  29. Again Albine whispered in an ardent, prayerful voice: 'Do you love me?

  30. He was listening to the solemnly sweet flow of a Bach prelude which Miss Eden was skilfully unravelling on the organ, the notes rising and falling, and anon soaring up again like prayerful words striving to carry themselves to heaven.

  31. It is wise, by thoughtful, prayerful study of God's Word, to try to understand what He has told us.

  32. But we ordinary folk can get a simple, clear grasp of God's plan and revealed insight into the future if we go at it in this thoughtful, prayerful way.

  33. By all these methods and illustrations our Lord incites us to follow his prayerful example, and to overcome, as he overcame, by prayer.

  34. How they float and wreathe and brighten, Bending low their starry brows, Singing with a tender cadence, And their hands, like spotless lilies, Folded on their prayerful breasts.

  35. It shall fall first upon your uplifted brows, your prayerful eyes.

  36. The Captain was a prayerful man, trusting in his Lord, though his faith was tried, and he thought the Lord was not helping him.

  37. I know them to be honest, faithful, prayerful workers, and earnest in their faith that heaven will bless the Church of Latter-day Saints.

  38. The gospel is there set forth in plain and simple language, and no one who reads the book, which is called the Book of Mormon, with a prayerful and unprejudiced heart, will fail to be impressed with its divine origin.

  39. Close by, to our bane, was a prayerful old gentleman, who began his devotions at a late hour and concluded them not before dawn.

  40. Every man who passes lends his shoulder for a minute, a mark of respect to the dead, and also considered a pious and a prayerful act.

  41. Perugino knew exactly how to represent a certain mood of religious sentiment, blending meek acquiescence with a prayerful yearning of the impassioned soul.

  42. Dear Cardie, your difficulty is a very real one, and only time and prayerful consideration can solve it; but beware how you let the wishes of your dead mother, dear and binding as they may be to you, prove a snare to your conscience.

  43. Precisely the process which The General thus describes in his own case must of necessity follow any thoughtful and prayerful consideration of the mission and Gospel of Christ.

  44. But the leaders of all the five sects of Buddhism were no less unanimous in their welcome to me, or in their expressions of prayerful desire for the success of my work.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prayerful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adoring; begging; devoted; devout; dutiful; faithful; godly; holy; imploring; mendicant; pietistic; pious; prayerful; prostrate; religious; reverent; solemn; suppliant; supplicatory; theistic; worshipful; worshiping