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Meaning prayer meaning

What does prayer mean?
Definitions in simple English

prayer

A prayer is when a person tries to communicate with a god he believes in and make requests for help to the god or give him devotion and praise.

prayer

the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) the priest sank to his knees in prayer (= petition) reverent petition to a deity (= entreaty, appeal) earnest or urgent request an entreaty to stop the fighting an appeal for help an appeal to the public to keep calm a fixed text used in praying someone who prays to God

Synonyms prayer synonyms

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Topics prayer topics

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Examples prayer examples

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Simple sentences

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
What is your favorite prayer?
What's your favorite prayer?
In the distance I hear a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.
Please say a prayer for those who were onboard.
What is the most powerful prayer in the world?
God, hear my prayer.
I've never been religious, but hearing the Lord's Prayer in Latin makes me shudder.
A prayer is one way to appeal to a deity.
Ceremony is not needed for prayer, trust is.
Joaquim is said to be religious, but he hardly knows the Lord's prayer.
The boy was frightened, and tried to say a prayer, but he could remember nothing but the multiplication table.
Tom's prayer was answered.
Tom recited the Lord's Prayer.
Your team doesn't have a prayer to win the championship game.
Even your silence can be a part of prayer.
The train from Krakow to Warsaw had to stop because of a young Muslim who had started to say a Mohammedan prayer.
Who taught you this prayer?
At the mosques, prayer rugs are generally found.
Frankincense added to the grain offering was a prototype of prayer to God.
Let my prayer arise in your sight as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

Movie subtitles

I'll say a prayer in worship.
With the old woman's permission, I show here the prayer book in which a woman (from 1921!
Faust spent day and night in prayer with God.
Do you know the Lord's Prayer?
Will you recite the Lord's Prayer?
Look. The answer to a prayer.
Hearken my prayer, O, Lord!
Now perhaps you will join me in prayer.
Maybe I ought to say a prayer, if I knowed one.
You've cost me a lot of prayer.
Let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could.
I actually said a prayer.
Say a prayer, quickly.
I'll pray one prayer with them.
Then say a prayer!
Every night, Jean whispered a prayer to his mother.
To find a cure for the Plague, Faust spent day and night in prayer with God.
His Highness Surat Khan, amir of Suristan offers a prayer of gratitude that you have been preserved in your journey. And places his household and all in it at the disposal of the illustrious envoy of her most gracious majesty, Queen Victoria.
You can't defeat me with a prayer.
Something I do very privately, say a prayer.
When I ordered my prayer book it took them years to copy it out and cost me a fortune.
Boy ranger, answer to our prayer.
Two Maiden's Prayer!
Know the Lord's Prayer?
Strengthen body weakness in prayer.
By prayer, Huw.
And by prayer I don't mean shouting and mumbling, and wallowing like a hog in religious sentiment.
Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking.
Prayer is wasted on your sort.
Now, will you men join me in the Lord's Prayer?
It was the Lord's Prayer.
And if there's a death mixed up in it, you haven't got a prayer. They'll hang you just as sure as ten dimes will buy a dollar.
Say a little prayer for me. How am I ever going to feel meek enough for church?
Here's your prayer book and purse.

News and current affairs

Bush still refuses to do anything about conservation, and he has put very little money behind his continuing prayer than technology will save us.
The Taliban's argument was simple: if your bird starts singing while you are praying, you will be distracted and your prayer will be nullified.
Now, tens of thousands of their students with little prayer caps dutifully chant the Koran all day.
Indeed, the captain, Gigi Buffon, sang with his eyes closed, as though in prayer.
Designed as a local symbol of mourning, these poles, with their sharply angled roofs, remind viewers either of a peasant cross or a human figure with hands raised in prayer.
Soon after, and more importantly, the Patriarch raised the level of Orthodoxy's representation at an ecumenical prayer called by Pope John Paul II in Assisi on January 24 th.
But their adherence to Islam is illustrated by the example of a man I once saw at Muslim prayer in the ruins of the ancient Zeus temple in a small town on the Aegean coast.
Prayer and spiritual devotion were important components of Cory's daily endeavors - and a major influence in her decision-making and personal relations. Her inner reserves of faith, indeed, kept her going through every hardship.
Last month, during a public prayer in Ramallah, the Palestinian Minister of Religion, Mahmoud Habash, delivered a speech that gives hope to proponents of this solution.
Some say that it was the disenchantment of the world: the shift from a worldview that relied on prayer and the propitiation of spirits to one that relied on rational manipulation and management of nature and of society.
In the absence of a change of heart by our political leaders, the power of prayer may be our only recourse.

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