6 sentences with 'prayer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prayer and other words derived from it.
• « I give him some T-shirts, a camera and the prayer shawl I used to pray with and have carried with me for three years. »
• « At first, these early monks spent almost all their time in prayer, but in time, most monastic communities came to embrace useful work as well as prayer and meditation. »
• « Instead, monks and nuns were to devote themselves to prayer and useful works, activities that were seen as fostering piety and devotion among monks and nuns, and which were often extremely profitable for the monasteries and convents themselves. »
• « More common than practical measures such as quarantines, however, was prayer and scapegoating to blame for the devastation. »
• « The Christian message that emerged from the "correct" version of the New Testament was a deeply personal philosophy of prayer, devotion and morality that did not correspond to many of the structures and practices of the Latin Church. »
• « St. Teresa led a major reform that redoubled the nuns' vow of poverty and their focus on prayer and purity (the reforms also abolished separate residences and lifestyles for nuns from rich and poor families). »