He taught them that true Divine service consisted of not only religious scholarship, but also a sincere love of God combined with warm faith and belief in the efficacy of prayer ; that the ordinary person filled with a sincere belief in God, and whose prayers come from the heart, is more acceptable to God than someone versed in and fully observant of Jewish law who lacks inspiration in his divine service.

The remote location was ideal for the Cistercians, whose desire was to follow a strict life of prayer and self-sufficiency with little contact with the outside world.

A typical Ferengi prayer begins with this phrase: " Blessed Exchequer, whose greed is eternal, allow this bribe to open your ears and hear this plea from your most humble debtor.

In the same way, the act of shirk is extended to include such things as the notion that God possesses human-like anthropomorphic qualities as well as acts of worship or piety whose inward goal is pride, caprice, or a desire for public admiration, although public prayer is a core Islamic aspect of faith, encouraged and supported in the Quran.

* Furthermore, since your city is regarded with affection by the adherents of three of the great religions of mankind and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of devout people of these three religions for many centuries, therefore, do I make it known to you that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the three religions will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faith they are sacred.

As pointed out by Dr. John Newton, the editor of Baronius Press, the prayer, in the form included in the 1962 Missal, for whose use the motu proprio gave greater freedom, draws heavily on 2 Corinthians, chapters 3 and 4.

An important influence on Sephardic prayer and custom was the late 19th century Baghdadi rabbi known as the Ben Ish Ḥai, whose work of that name contained both halachic rulings and observations on Kabbalistic custom based on his correspondence with Eliyahu Mani of the Bet El yeshivah.

And this was the prayer of Christians, whose baptismal oath pledged them to renounce " the devil and his works ... the pomps and shows ( spectacula )" of this wicked world ( vi.

Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross were Spanish mystics and reformers of the Carmelite Order whose ministry focused on interior conversion to Christ, the deepening of prayer and commitment to God's will.

Since those who have died in the state of grace ( with all mortal sins forgiven ) are members of the communion of saints, it is the belief of the Catholic Church that the living can help those whose purification from their sins is not yet completed not only by prayer but also by obtaining indulgences for them.

In 1 Chronicles, Jabez is a well-respected man ( ancestor in the lineage of the kings ' tribe of Judah ) whose prayer to God for blessing was answered ( see 1 Chronicles 4: 9-11 ).

The sword is given with the words, " Receive this sword ...", followed by the prayer, " God whose providence ..." The king is crowned with the words, " Receive this royal crown ...", followed by the prayer, " God of Continuity ..." The Scepter is given with the words, " Receive the scepter of royal power ...", followed by the prayer, " Lord, fount of all goodness ..." and finally the verge is given the king with the words, " Receive the rod of virtue and dignity ..." followed by six blessing.

" To those whose hearts, when God is mentioned, are filled with fear, who show patient perseverance over their afflictions, keep up regular prayer, and spend ( in charity ) out of what we have bestowed upon them.

However, in the case of one who was asleep, or forgot to perform the prayer or was coerced by extraordinary circumstances or factors beyond his control or in the case of woman whose prayer was delayed due to menstruation, the end of the Maghrib prayer time is Fajir.

It is unlawful to wear clothing during prayer made of animals whose meat Muslims aren't allowed to eat, but this particular man lived in an area whereby those were the only clothes available ; he feared that if he took them off for prayer, he would freeze.

William Warde Fowler, whose work on Roman festivals remains a standard reference, entertained the idea that Robigus is an " indigitation " of Mars, that is, a name to be used in a prayer formulary to fix the local action of the invoked god.

This type of Cavalier was personified by Lord Jacob Astley whose prayer at the start of the Battle of Edgehill has become famous " O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day.

Muhammad spent more than 20 nights in this mosque ( after migrating ) praying qasr ( a short prayer ) while waiting for Ali whose house was behind this mosque.

Our two travellers stayed with him and together they founded a community of three, whose only aim was to be devoted to prayer and fasting.

One day he overheard a conversation in which the legislature's opening prayer was mocked.

While Paul's opening prayer is for love ( 1: 9 ), based on knowledge of Christ, his final prayer is for the peace of God ( 4: 7 ), which surpasses all understanding.

In prayer and meditation he came to a greater understanding of the nature of his faith and what it required from him ; this process he called " opening ".

The opening words of this prayer are inspired by, a vision of God becoming great in the eyes of all the nations.

* Ganapati Vandana-A traditional opening prayer to the Hindu god Ganesh, who removes obstacles.

Even the opening scene, which features a large sign saying " Welcome to Clairton, City of Prayer ," was shot in Mingo Junction, Ohio, although its verbiage is based on smaller signs posted at the city's boundaries during the mid 1960s ( as a response to the Supreme Court's 1963 ban on sponsored school prayer ).

An opening prayer is followed by three long prayers in identical words for each of the three offerings to the three Grabovian gods and these by a general prayer in conclusion.

Graham spoke at the 1999 Columbine High School memorial, and he also gave the opening prayer at the 2001 inauguration of George W. Bush.

The plaintiffs argued that opening the school day with such a prayer violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution ( as applied to the states through the Fourteenth ), which says in part, " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ".

* O ' Hair v. Cooke ( 1977 ) Challenged the opening prayer at city council meetings in Austin, Texas.

The Oratio Missae or Prayer of the Mass, an opening prayer making reference to the feast being celebrated and in general character much like the Roman Collect.

The opening words of the prayer (" St. Michael, defend us in battle ") are sometimes used as an independent prayer, a short invocation, not as a fragment of the longer prayer.

The Muslim community thanked King for his work by making him the guest of honor for the 1993 opening of a $ 3 million prayer hall.

Nevertheless, he served as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives for the 21st and 22nd Congresses and again for the 30th and 31st, opening each day's proceedings with a prayer.

Following this is the invocation, or opening prayer.

In Jewish liturgy, the verse from Isaiah is uttered by the congregation during Kedusha, a prayer said during the cantor's repetition of the Amidah ( 18 Benedictions ) before the opening of the ark:

After her ordination, then member of Congress Bella Abzug arranged for her to deliver the opening prayer at the House of Representatives, being the first Jewish woman to do so.

In the opening prayer of the Perpetual chapel in St. Peter Basilica Pope John Paul II prayed for a perpetual adoration chapel in every parish in the world.

After the opening versicle, a hymn, prayer, and / or canticle are said or sung.

* an opening prayer, if desired

In the prayer Jesus taught his disciples to pray we find these words, `` Forgive us our debts ''.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

The Latter-day Saint Endowment prayer circle once included use of the words " Pay Lay Ale ", which some adherents believed were Adamic words meaning " Oh God, hear the words of my mouth ".

* Some of the words and phrases of the prayer have to be inferred from the context because the text is fragmentary.

In both cases, the text used is not only taken from a Greek addition, the readings also are the prayer of Mordecai, and nothing of Esther's own words is ever used.

The Eucharistic prayer was split in two so that Eucharistic bread and wine were shared immediately after the words of institution ( This is my Body .. This is my blood ... in remembrance of me.

The words at the administration of Communion which, in the prayer book of 1549 described the Eucharistic species as ' The body of our Lorde Jesus Christe ...', ' The blood of our Lorde Jesus Christe ...' were replaced with the words ' Take, eat, in remembrance that Christ died for thee ..' etc.

This was achieved by the insertion of the words ' and oblations ' into the prayer for the Church and the revision of the rubric so as to require the monetary offerings to be brought to the Table ( instead of being put in the poor box ) and the bread and wine placed upon the Table.

The so-called manual acts, whereby the priest took the bread and the cup during the prayer of consecration, which had been deleted in 1552, were restored ; and an " Amen " was inserted after the words of institution and before the Communion, hence separating the elements of Consecration and Communion that Cranmer had tried to knit together.

As in England, while many prayers were retained the structure of the Communion service was altered: a Prayer of Oblation was added to the Eucharistic prayer after the ' words of institution ', thus reflecting the rejection of Cranmer's theology in liturgical developments across the Anglican Communion.

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

However, the religious vocabulary ( words like baptism, sermon, prayer, church, apostle, bishop or confirmation ) were adopted from the Czech language and had to come from Dobrawa's entourage and the church elements that arrived with her.

* Chapter 20 directs that prayer be made with heartfelt compunction rather than many words.

For example, Shlomo Carlebach performed his prayer " Shema Yisrael " with the words Shema Yisrael Adoshem Elokeinu Adoshem Eḥad instead of Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Eḥad.

During their Tonsure ( religious profession ), Eastern Orthodox Monks and Nuns are given a prayer rope, with the words: Accept, O brother ( sister ) ( name ), the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God ( Ephesians 6: 17 ) in the everlasting Jesus prayer by which you should have the name of the Lord in your soul, your thoughts, and your heart, saying always: " Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Pueblo prayer included substances as well as words ; one common prayer material was ground-up maize — white cornmeal.

According to Denkard, the 21 nasks ( books ) mirror the structure of the 21-word-long Ahuna Vairya prayer: each of the three lines of the prayer consists of seven words.

However, Kohanim retain a formal and public ceremonial role in synagogue prayer services, which were established as a substitute for or reminder of the sacrifices themselves (" Take with you words, and return unto the LORD ; say unto Him: " Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good ; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips ..." ()).