281 adjectives to describe prayers

Her decision was not taken without earnest prayer; and had her parents opposed her wishes she would have been prepared to give them up, but, ga

Some supposed that he withdrew from the sight of men for the purpose of more fervent prayer and more holy meditation; others, that he visited his home, or some other distant country.

This little prayer indicates the purpose and end of the recitation of the Office, the glory of the Holy Trinity.

She was remarkable for her intelligence and dutiful conduct; and from the age of ten felt deep religious convictions, and was constant in her daily prayers and Bible reading.

But Giles the archer, sitting beside him, vented by turns bitter curses upon Sir Pertolepe and humble prayers to his patron saint, so fluent and so fast that prayers and curses became strangely blent and mingled, on this wise: "May Red Pertolepe be thrice damned with a candle to the blessed Saint Giles that is my comfort and intercessor.

The gazing crowds still round thee throng, Still to thy well-known voice repair, As when erewhile thy hallow'd tongue Pour'd in the Mosque the solemn prayer.

They felt that the individual could generally best work out his own salvation, and that his constant prayer to Government was that of Diogenes to Alexander: "Keep out of my sunlight."

They entered with such seriousness on their countenances that I felt my spirit suddenly drawn towards them in love, and a secret prayer was raised in my heart for their everlasting good.

After reading these words we can understand how prayer offered up with involuntary distractions is true, holy prayer.

It may assist them to know and love the official prayers of the Church, and may help to form devout habits of recitation, so that, when the obligation of the daily office is imposed on them, they may recite it digne, attente et devote.

These words, the opening words of Psalm 69, were always and everywhere used by the monks of old, says Cassian, who called this short prayer the formula of piety, the continual prayer.

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered.

We shall see that he was not successful in business; and it may be that the disappointments he experienced in this way were in some sort an answer to these ardent prayers to be kept from the spirit of the world.

There was no one in the world that she opened her heart to as she opened it to him; not Miss Prudence, even, sympathetic as she was; she would not mind so very, very much if he knew about that foolish, childish prayer.

The "texts and intentions" may be an aid to them, and to students in Holy Orders, in the great and glorious work of pious prayer.

That the good old munching system may last thy time and mine, good un-incendiary George, is the devout prayer of thine, to the last crust, CH.

But perceiving that the apparition stood the test of a short mental prayer, and remembering that the arm which he had touched was life-like, he adopted a more rational supposition.

" Then the hermit laid his hands upon Beltane's golden head and blessed him, and whispered awhile in passionate prayer.

In the confusion that followed Maxime's death, this inward prayer pressed more on the one less able to resist.

She knelt by Rosa's bedside to whisper a brief prayer, and, giving her one long, lingering look, she took up her baby, and set off for the plantation, wondering at the mysterious ways of Providence.

He had grown; Marjorie felt it in every word of the simple heartfelt prayer.

'The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.' St. James, v. 16.

What I hear and see here is quite a new light on intercessory prayer.

And he heard his simple, touching prayer, Through all their noisy play; Though he tried his very best to put The thought of him away.

The Church, guided by the Holy Ghost, has drawn up these volumes of liturgical prayer, so that for each season, even for each day, her official prayer may be suited to the time, to different degrees of solemnity and of rite, and so that it may be fixed and determined, yet having great beauty in its wonderful unity and variety.

281 adjectives to describe  prayers