Prayers
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With its large political donations and ability to mobilize its membership, the NRA continues to dictate the actions of lawmakers, who inevitably offer only thoughts, prayers, and excuses after every massacre.
Hadi’s message helped to create a deep divide between the two “kinds” of Muslims, to the extent that villages would have two mosques, two cemeteries, and two clerics to lead
prayers
and officiate at ceremonies.
Such a society is not the answer to all our
prayers
for decency and fairness, or even for sensible and good decisions.
Observant Muslims gather at sundown for iftar (breakfast), followed by evening prayers, tawarih (longer prayers, including a short sermon), social interactions, qiyyam (another late-night prayer), suhur (another collective meal), and then morning
prayers.
Though Pakistani politics are generally secular, the country’s imams remain influential, and they successfully lobbied the government in April to allow congregational
prayers.
Willpower and
prayers
were useless in containing the Black Death in the Middle Ages.
The measure was also aimed at appeasing his Orthodox allies, as it created a false symmetry between the ban on protests in open spaces (where the risk of infection is minimal) and the restriction of
prayers
in synagogues (a hotspot of infections).
During the service he would sometimes listen to the prayers, trying to see in them a meaning which would not clash with his opinions, or, finding that he could not understand and had to disapprove of them, he would try not to listen but to occupy his mind with observation of what was going on or with recollections which passed with extraordinary clearness through his brain as he stood idly in the church.
He stood through the mass and vespers and evensong, and the next day, having got up earlier than usual, he went to church before breakfast to hear morning
prayers
and to confess.
The young deacon, the two halves of his long back clearly distinguishable through his thin under-cassock, met him, and going at once to a small table beside the wall, began reading the
prayers.
Bowing slightly to Levin he began at once in his stereotyped tone to read the
prayers.
There were
prayers
as usual for the world above, for salvation, for the Synod, for the Emperor, and also for the servants of God that day wedded, Constantine and Catherine.
'I have never been present, but Mama told me that there are
prayers
for the restoration of health...''Do you really think he can recover?' he asked, looking at the back of her round little head, at the narrow parting which closed every time she drew the comb forward.
Kitty sent for the priest to read the
prayers
for the dying.
The
prayers
were not yet ended when the dying man stretched himself; sighed and opened his eyes.
Left alone, Dolly said her
prayers
and got into bed.
An old man stammered forgotten prayers, bending his thumbs backwards to appease the evil spirits of the mine.
But, whether he had not noticed the trick, or did not dare to attempt it, the "new fellow," was still holding his cap on his knees even after
prayers
were over.
In the evening, before prayers, there was some religious reading in the study.
They had indeed been so lavish to her of prayers, retreats, novenas, and sermons, they had so often preached the respect due to saints and martyrs, and given so much good advice as to the modesty of the body and the salvation of her soul, that she did as tightly reined horses; she pulled up short and the bit slipped from her teeth.
The new servant obeyed without a murmur, so as not to be sent away; and as madame usually left the key in the sideboard, Felicite every evening took a small supply of sugar that she ate alone in her bed after she had said her
prayers.
Teach my name to your child; let her repeat it in her prayers."
Charles nevertheless was very crestfallen before Emma, who did not hide the resentment she still felt at his want of confidence, and it needed many
prayers
before she would consent to have another power of attorney.
As the death-rattle became stronger the priest prayed faster; his
prayers
mingled with the stifled sobs of Bovary, and sometimes all seemed lost in the muffled murmur of the Latin syllables that tolled like a passing bell.
"Yet," Homais went on, "one of two things; either she died in a state of grace (as the Church has it), and then she has no need of our prayers; or else she departed impertinent (that is, I believe, the ecclesiastical expression), and then—"Bournisien interrupted him, replying testily that it was none the less necessary to pray.
The women followed in black cloaks with turned-down hoods; each of them carried in her hands a large lighted candle, and Charles felt himself growing weaker at this continual repetition of
prayers
and torches, beneath this oppressive odour of wax and of cassocks.
Join with me in my prayers,' etc., etc.Julien had a horror of scandal, and of anything that might attract attention to himself.
We fastened the so-called boat together with some pieces of string, got a bit of wall-paper and pasted over the shabbier places, said our prayers, and stepped on board.
But under no sufferings, in no misfortunes, the subject of poverty and obloquy, the remembrance of that blessing never left him; it constantly gleamed over the images of the past, shedding a holy radiance around his saddest hours of despondency; it cheered the prospect of the future with the
prayers
of a pious spirit; and it brought the sweet assurance of having faithfully discharged the sacred offices of filial love.
I recommend you to say your prayers, and then to get some rest, in order that you may do both.
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