Please, dear God, make my pilots good, he prayed.

she, too, prayed only to God.

" The peculiarity of this change of gender led the later rabbis to reason that this means Jonah was comfortable in the roomy male fish, so he didn't pray, but that God then transferred him to a smaller, female fish, in which the prophet was uncomfortable, so that he prayed.

However a Danish priest on top of a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, which meant that the Danes moved closer to victory the more he prayed.

A tradition, which resembles that of Hannah and Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, states that Ezekiel's mother prayed to God in old age for the birth of an offspring and was given Ezekiel as a gift from God.

As in Daniel: "[...] his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he had done before " ().

They point out that Noah did not pray to God on behalf of those about to be destroyed, as Abraham prayed for the wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Eugene " placed his blessed hand on the head of the youthful servant of God, prayed for him, and blessed him.

Sulemani then prayed to God for forgiveness and thanked the creature for teaching him a lesson in humility.

On that day, I stood in the cave and prayed, praise be to God, ( in gratitude ) for everything '.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

" When a terrorist attack failed to happen in 2007, Robertson said, in January 2008, " All I can think is that somehow the people of God prayed and God in his mercy spared us.

" They prayed the new king would restore morality at court and better serve the will of God.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ' God, I thank you that I am not like other men — robbers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector.

According the tradition, on the eve of the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni, Clovis prayed to God, swearing to be baptised if he emerged victorious on the battlefield.

Fiona, Tommy, and Jeff arrive at Mr. Lundie's home, where he relates a story that the two New Yorkers can hardly believe: to protect Brigadoon from being changed by the outside world, two hundred years ago, the local pastor prayed to God to have Brigadoon disappear, only to reappear for one day every 100 years.

Yet I liked not to pray to a jealous God there where the frail affectionate gods whom the heathen love were being humbly invoked ; so I bethought me, instead, of Sheol Nugganoth, whom the men of the jungle have long since deserted, who is now unworshipped and alone ; and to him I prayed.

Abraham prayed for his father to be forgiven by God, and although he continued to seek forgiveness, it was only because of a promise that he had made earlier to him.

Filled with happiness, grief, fear, wonder and ' bhakthi ' ( devotion to God ) and self-surrender, the king prayed for the mercy and blessings of Manikantan.

At around this time he was drinking with a group of friends when one of them became so drunk he fainted ; Hale prayed to God to forgive and save his friend, and forgive him for his previous excesses.

Others acted as children, basing their belief on Jesus ’ words in, “ Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it .” O. J. D. Pickands used to teach that Christ was now sitting on a white cloud, and must be prayed down.

** Next a preface is prayed, indicating specific reasons for giving thanks to God.

In 2006, according to the Asia Times, " Lee also sent a video prayer message to a Christian rally held in the southern city of Busan in which the worship leader prayed feverishly: ' Lord, let the Buddhist temples in this country crumble down!

So the brother took his younger sister to the top of the Kunlun Mountain and prayed, " If the heavens allow us to be man and wife, please let the smoke before us gather.

It is also said that she prayed to gods to let her be the goddess of marital affairs.

My soul was in an agony ; I wept, I prayed, and said, " Now, Lord, if there is mercy for me, let me find it ," and it really seemed to me that I could almost lay hold of the Saviour, and realize a reconciled God, All of a sudden, such a fear of the devil fell upon me that it really appeared to me that he was surely personally there, to seize and drag me down to hell, soul and body, and such a horror fell on me that I sprang to my feet and ran to my mother at the house.

He was received in the arms of the elder Simeon, who then prayed, " Now let Thy servant depart ( die ) in peace ,... for I have seen Thy salvation.

I desired her to let alone that compliment, for that I did not care for it ; but she insisted to make these three ordinary turns, and then prayed that God and MacCharmaig, the patron saint of the island, might bless and prosper me in all my affairs.

Bhagiratha again prayed for Jhuhnu to let out Ganga.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

Thomas Becket, a later Archbishop of Canterbury, prayed to him just before his own murder in Canterbury Cathedral.

By his account, upon having been told by friends and relatives that they had prayed for him, he resisted the urge to ask them, " Did you also sacrifice a goat?

On the way to Athens his ship encountered a violent storm, and the terrified Gregory prayed to Christ that if he would deliver him, he would dedicate his life to His service.

Basil prayed to Mercurius to help him, and the saint appeared in a vision to Basil, claiming to have speared Julian to death.

Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of support.

Euryclea tries to guide him to naming the boy Polyaretos, " for he has much been prayed for " ( 19. 403f ).

His father prayed for him to be restored, but the gods instead changed him into a flower.

In another the son of the prefect is struck dead, but revived after Agnes prayed for him, causing her release.

Cyril of Jerusalem ( 346 AD ) in the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies: Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, and was actually careening through the air in a chariot drawn by demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse.

According to the story, Croesus called out to Apollo and prayed to him.

She gave birth to a son on the island and named him Anius ( as if from " to suffer "); she then put him on the altar of Apollo and prayed to the god that the baby be saved if it was his.

When he prayed to Apollo, the god advised him to kill his mother.

This happened when the nurse of the child Eurycleia " laid the child upon his knees and spoke, and addressed him: Autolycus, find now thyself a name to give to thy child's own child ; be sure he has long been prayed for " ( Homer 19. 386-403 ).

People prayed to him when they removed thorny plants from their fields, as he presided over the digging out of thorn bushes and guarded the field against thorns.

The Padma Purana says that Kubera prayed to Shiva for many years, and Shiva granted him the kingship of Yakshas.

Marcellus concluded that this was the nicest armor, which he had previously prayed would be given by him to the gods.