prayer

From: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

prayer • noun   1. say a prayer to God | evening prayers synonyms : devotion, communion, litany, invocation, intercession.
  2. prayers for mercy synonyms : appeal, plea, beseeching, entreaty, petition, solicitation, supplication, suit, invocation, adjuration.

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What is the real power of prayer?; Why are fewer people taking the time to talk with God?(Features)
; Prayer has lost its appeal. Today, most people pray simply to make selfish requests for success in life and career. But prayer is not just about asking for things, it's about building...Parish Church in the Creggan Estate, Derry. He believes prayer helps us develop a proper relationship with God. IT is...
Space for prayer
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Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament
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My prayer: while no one has definitive answers, a personal journey sheds light on this humble act and, surprisingly, on who can benefit from it. (Health).(Brief Article)
; Growing up, I didn't have a prayer--literally. In my family, the word was almost never mentioned...intuition to define our beliefs. But somehow, words like prayer were scarce. (By prayer, I mean a petition to, or communion with, a higher power...
Where Are You/Spirits: Style and Theme in Berawan Prayer.
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Prayer from Tobit to Qumran: Inaugural Conference of the ISDCL at Salzburg, Austria, 5-9 July 2003.(Book review)
; PRAYER FROM TOBIT TO QUMRAN: INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF THE ISDCL...2004. Pp. xiv + 554. 98 [euro]. These essays on biblical prayer appear in the first yearbook of the recently created International...meeting, the theme of which was The Function and Relevance of Prayer in Deuterocanonical Literature. The ...
Prayer in the New Testament
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