prayer
IPA: prˈɛr
noun
- (uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
- (countable) An act of praying.
- The specific words or methods used for praying.
- A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
- (countable) A request; a petition.
- (in the singular, mostly in negative constructions) The remotest hope or chance.
- One who prays.
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Examples of "prayer" in Sentences
- It is the only offertory prayer.
- The prayer worked as a demulcent.
- A propitiatory prayer ends the work.
- The prayers believe in their demonimations.
- He rejects prayers and supplications to god.
- It involves the repetition of the Jesus prayer.
- A special prayer service and potluck was held at the church.
- The atmosphere of the church invites to prayer and stillness.
- The prayer is quoted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
- Her faith in prayer is equal to her faith in the love of Jesus.
- The Angelus exemplifies a species of prayers called the prayer of the devotee.
- He gives us both instruction and encouragement in prayer from the consideration of our relation to God as a Father.
- But we must notice that when we speak of prayer we can mean either prayer _considered in itself_ or the _cause of prayer_.
- The book, whose cover bears a photograph of its subject kneeling in prayer, is titled Francisco Franco: Exemplary Christian.
- The term prayer (euche) used at Nicæa, has in this connection always been taken in its strict signification as meaning supplication
- And our business in prayer is not to prescribe, but to subscribe to the wisdom and will of God; to refer our case to him, and then to leave it with him.
- The first is the theory of those who hold that there _is the same relation between prayer and the answer to prayer_ as between _cause and effect in any other sequence of Nature_.
- But prayer, generally considered, embraces all the above-mentioned parts; when, however, we distinguish one part against another, _prayer_, properly speaking, means the uplifting of the mind to God.
- This ought to be remembered in prayer, because one great errand we have to the throne of grace, is, to pray for the pardon of our sins: and care about it ought to be our daily care, because prayer is a part of our daily work.