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It is a petitionary prayer to be able to lie down in peace at night and to return to life the following day.

They say that their beliefs are often "naive, petitionary, and superstitious".

Nay, I prithee now, with most petitionary vehemence, tell me who it is.

Four addresses on impetrative or petitionary prayer.

But the petitionary aspect of prayer is not as important to Gandhi as the communion aspect.

Prayers asking God for something - good health, better weather, victory in war or in football - are called petitionary prayers.

Others have indicated that Hartshorne failed to understand traditional Christian views about petitionary prayer and survival of the individual in the afterlife.

As Gandhi understands it, by means of petitionary prayer man invokes the divinity within himself; he petitions the real, higher Self.

Petitionary prayer which is truly Christian asks God for that which we are convinced is in accordance with the divine will.

There are different forms of prayer such as petitionary prayer, prayers of supplication, thanksgiving, and worship/praise.

They contained requests for places, protestations of fidelity, and, in short, they were those petitionary circulars that are addressed to all persons in power.

Chubb was sure that God heard all our petitionary prayers, but he did not think God answered all of them in the way we wanted him to.

Jewish Petitionary Prayer: A Theological Exploration.

It was a custom in Syrian Jewish communities (and some others), to sing Baqashot (petitionary hymns), before the morning service on Shabbat.

Turner's obligations to James did not prevent him from joining in the petitionary protest (18 May 1688) of the seven bishops against the king's declaration for liberty of conscience.

Baqashot probably evolved out of the tradition of saying petitionary prayers before dawn and was spread from Safed by the followers of Isaac Luria (16th century).

In a parliament, this is also called a parliamentary motion and includes legislative motions, budgetary motions, supplementary budgetary motions, and petitionary motions.

In a split second I reviewed everything I had heard or read about mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and then sent my fervent petitionary prayer into the lungs of the child with the first breath.

He lost his faith at the age of five after petitionary prayer failed to remove Hitler and Oswald Mosley; he then turned to the Marxism of his uncle.

The British philosopher D.Z. Phillips has insisted that all "real" petitionary prayer reduces to the core of the prayer Jesus taught to his disciples: "Thy will be done."

In 1604, the Eßweiler parishioners sent a petitionary letter to the lord who was responsible, namely Duke Johannes II ("the Young"), asking for a Latin school to be established.

However, from the 1570s onwards he is found associating with known Catholics, including Lord Thomas Paget, to whom he wrote a petitionary letter on behalf of an unnamed friend in 1573.

Byrd evolved a special 'cell' technique for setting the petitionary clauses such as 'miserere mei' or 'libera nos Domine' which form the focal point for a number of the texts.

You will, of course, conceal from him the fact that the prayer for daily bread, interpreted in a "spiritual sense", is really just as crudely petitionary as it is in any other sense.

I secretly sent a petitionary letter by the hand of Hazrat Mirza Sardar Baig Sahib (whose Dargah Shareef is in Hyderbad, India).