Petitionary

I don’t believe in petitionary or intercessory prayer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And as go wishes, so go petitionary and intercessory prayers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

William James—the nineteenth-century American pioneer in psychology and the psychology of religion, specifically—argued that petitionary prayer would be a problematic practice for Christianity in the modern age. ❋ Kate Braestrup (2010)

Because we are not perfect and because our own desire for the safety of those we care for may overwhelm our sense of justice or duty, the Christian concludes a petitionary prayer with “Not my will but Thine, Lord.” ❋ Kate Braestrup (2010)

He was the most articulate, if not the first, American to predict that as petitionary prayer was brought forward into a science-based world, it would be seen increasingly as inelegant and intellectually embarrassing, especially when placed alongside the marvels of science and scientific medicine. ❋ Kate Braestrup (2010)

I remember a woman who came to Mass every day at Dolores Mission, and during the time of petitionary prayer she always said the same thing: Por los pecadores, para que ELLOS ... ❋ Gregory Boyle (2010)

Much of their praying consisted of reciting the Yiddish petitionary prayers, called tkhines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If he does win, I promise not to use his success as evidence of the value of petitionary prayer. ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)

Adam Rutherford, who has been blogging on the Alpha Course, of course rejects the efficiacy of petitionary prayer, but thinks there is nevertheless something of value in the exercise: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among its early practitioners there are no familiar names of women, although women had certainly written Yiddish texts — primarily tkhines [petitionary prayers in prose and verse] — since the medieval period. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Doesn't all petitionary prayer treat God as a kind of divine vending machine? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sagan reserved particular scorn for petitionary prayer, which by its very utterance renders God's qualities of omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence mutually contradictory. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ben is right that the whole metaphor is about power assymetry ... but it's not about abuse; it's about the petitionary aspect of prayer, the self-interest of the sycophant. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)