Let our supplications cover all the ground of our daily wants, and be true to our own souls.
Think of the thousands of supplications that will go up in churches and chapels to-day for spiritual blessings.
The ladies' dresses were constantly getting ruined, nevertheless protests andsupplications went for nothing.
With this view he set himself the task of warming the lawful and legitimate petitions and supplications of the Uitlanders into seditious talk, and their frettings into threatenings--the final outcome to be revolt and armed rebellion.
Above all, he preferred many supplications to St Rosalia.
Why utter prayers which are rejected, and supplications which are scorned?
These supplications were graciously regarded, and he was enabled again to preach very frequently, and with much success, till October, 1806, when it pleased God to afflict him with typhus fever.
Mingled with their thanksgiving for the manifold blessings of the past, were fervent supplications for success in the work of completing the Lord's House within the time prescribed.
In due time, however, their sorrows and supplications came up before the Lord, and He led them forth by the outstretched arm of power.
We seem to hear Ronsard himself addressing his supplications to the reader: "I implore of you one thing only, reader, to pronounce well my verses and suit your voice to their passion .
Indeed, there ensued a famine and a scarcity of food; upon which they betook themselves to their supplications to God, and besought him to save them.
But when God had once taken pity of the Israelites, on account of their afflictions, and was moved to compassion by their supplications put up to him, he freed them from the hard usage they had met with under the Moabites.
However, his supplications were heard, and he was providentially delivered from that imminent danger he was in.
I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning--from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse!
But she withstood the temptation bravely, withstood it even when it came strengthened by the supplications of her friends; and from first to last she gave the world nothing but her best.
Then, a thanksgiving having been appointed, all the temples in the city were thrown open, and supplications for three days were decreed.
He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee.
But apart from such presumptuous, foolish, or impious supplications as are at once repulsed and rebuked by the Divine silence, what are the objects we may lawfully pray for, asking for a response?
It is otherwise, however, where an avowed acceptance of Theism is nevertheless accompanied by doubts as regards any objective effects flowing from supplications addressed to God; it is with such doubts as these that we are concerned.
When we have any request to make of powerful persons, we proffer it humbly and reverently; with how much greater humility and devotion, then, should we offer our supplications unto God, the Lord of all.
At length his persistent declarations of repentance and the supplications of all who were there with us overcame our reluctance, and we removed the excommunication from him and received him again into the bosom of the holy mother church.
Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.
And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications before him: 42:10.
But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.
Will he make many supplicationsto thee, or speak soft words to thee?
The worship is thin, the thanksgivings are scanty, the supplications are indifferent.
Let some new and weary bird find a resting-place in the branches of my supplications every time I hold communication with God.
Besides the title of Procurator-general of Peru, for the purpose of presenting the supplications and remonstrances of the colonists, Gonzalo was appointed general of the army which was to defend him against the Inca.
The supplications of an author never yet reprieved him a moment from oblivion; and, though greatness has sometimes sheltered guilt, it can afford no protection to ignorance or dulness.
Prayers were offered for her in the churches; she was deeply touched when her women told her that the whole of Celle was praying for her, and even the Jewish community had offered up supplications on her behalf.
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supplications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
