What is "prayerful"

Usage examples of "prayerful".

After all, the walls of the monastery mark off a place of prayerful silence intended to create optimal conditions for meditative living.

We have only to read his Rule in a sincere and prayerful manner to discover how he speaks to our heart of the timeless truths of meditative living.

Augustine found himself where the mystics found themselves in their prayerful reflections on the Trinity.

Whether we are being inspired by a story about Saint Francis kissing a leper or by seeing how, in our own day, Mother Teresa of Calcutta spent her life serving the poorest of the poor, we are being inspired by the mind of Christ that flows from deep prayerful oneness with God.

I order Claire to desist from her prayerful talk of Darkness and such.

Because, also, teaching these things and learning these things will infallibly make us the humblest of men, the most contrite, the most self-despising, the most prayerful, and the most patient, meek, and loving of men.

You, being given to a more contemplative and prayerful life, have a greater comprehension of the peril we face, and for that reason, I beseech you to address the Knights Hospitaler and urge them to be more militant in their actions, to do more than they have done to bring about the end of the vile bondage that holds Jerusalem in thrall to Saladin.

Does that keep you not only watchful and prayerful, but, what is the best ground in you of all true watchfulness and prayerfulness, full of secret shame, self-fear, and self-detestation?

Earnest prayerful consultation intensify teaching campaign already energetically initiated India Burma vitally required.

In his memory is a vast library of recordings of the music that he likes best: the cries and squeals, the prayerful whispers, the shrieks as thin as paper cuts, the pulsatory sobbings for mercy, and the erotic inducements of final desperations.

Arnold steepled his fingers, more a thoughtful gesture, I judged, than a prayerful one.

What does it matter that it is an abnormal tension, if the result, if the moment of sensation, remembered and analysed in a state of health, turns out to be harmony and beauty brought to their highest point of perfection, and gives a feeling, undivined and undreamt of till then, of completeness, proportion, reconciliation, and an ecstatic and prayerful fusion in the highest synthesis of life?

His adolescent mutterings in times of family stress were all prayerful, exotic syllables: Bahrein, Dar es Salaam, Samarang.

The twenty-one Benedictine monks who live in prayerful isolation within the walls of Belmont Abbey take vows of poverty.

But over the next few years, Sister Hilaria began to think wistfully about living a quieter, more prayerful life.