The "spirit of supplications" is the mercury whose rise or fall is an unerring test of the state of the Church [Moore]. ❋ Unknown (1871)
[Leo]. in supplications and prayers -- Greek, "in her supplications and prayers"; the former signifies asking under a sense of need, the latter, prayer (see on [2475] 1Ti 2: 1; [2476] Php 4: 6). night and day -- another coincidence with Luke (Lu 18: 7, "cry day and night"); contrast Satan's accusations "day and night" (Re 12: 10). ❋ Unknown (1871)
"the secret place of the Most High," pouring out His soul "in supplications and prayers, with strong crying and tears" (Heb 5: 7). ❋ Unknown (1871)
Their cries were partly in Egyptian, partly in their own tongue, but the cause of their terror and the burden of their supplications were the same. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)
Objection 1: It would seem that the parts of prayer are unfittingly described as supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
You bid me finish the poem in his honour which I had begun; and although I have been diverted from it by business, and still more by my feelings, yet, since Cæsar knows that I did begin something, I will return to my design, and will complete in these leisure days of the "supplications," [680] during which I greatly rejoice that our friend Messalla and the rest are at last relieved from worry. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
Yet, as he walked to-day, the centre of ten thousand observers, with eyes discreetly fixed on the ground, veiling his head at times and muttering very rapidly the words of the "supplications," there was something many spectators may have noted as a thing new in their experience, for Aurelius, unlike his predecessors, took all this with absolute seriousness. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
In all probability the "supplications" for ministerial visits that were laid before the Synod of Philadelphia, then the only Synod of Presbyterian clergy in the United States, came, in part, from the bounds of Orange county, North Carolina. ❋ Unknown (1846)
Coming from Pennsylvania here, these people naturally looked to the Synod of Philadelphia, and the Presbyteries of which it was composed, for their ministers; and being many of them pious people, their "supplications" for ministerial labor appear very early on the records of the Synod. ❋ Unknown (1846)
What concerns 'supplications', there is some disagreement whether Allah can be influence by prayer or not. ❋ Unknown (2008)
During their salaat (formal ritual prayers) and their du'as (spontaneous supplications) Muslims engage in a genuine communication with the Lord. ❋ Wilfredo Amr Ruiz (2012)
All of them from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Moses to Jesus and Muhammad, directed their prayers and supplications exclusively to the Lord Creator of Heavens and Earth and to nothing or nobody else. ❋ Wilfredo Amr Ruiz (2012)
"I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made -- for kings and all who are in high positions" (1 Timothy 2: 1-2). ❋ Jim Wallis (2010)
No matter what it does, the faithful continue to offer up sacrifices and supplications. ❋ Unknown (2009)
No, first came the plants, the flora, the foliage – the carpet and frame of the world, and they grew upwards with outstretched arms in the first of all supplications before the One Who Sits On High, and He saw it was good. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Every time I enter a synagogu,e I'm moved to weep by song and prayer, feeling my father and mother and Bubbah's supplications holding me aloft, telling me not to give up for they never gave up even as they encountered genocide. ❋ Cheryl Pearl Sucher (2011)
Before or after prayer, many Muslims also make supplications to God for certain blessings like good health for their children, a swift recovery for those who are ill, relief for people suffering from famine or drought around the world. ❋ Engy Abdelkader (2011)
