Word: prayerfulness
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...crop of dead, then to hell with sympathy. The fact is that the world hates us for our wealth, our success, our power. They hate us into incoherence. The Europeans, Ajami astutely observes, disdain us for our excessive religiosity (manifest, they imagine, by evolution being expelled from schools while prayer is ushered back in)--while the Arab world despises us as purveyors of secularism. We cannot win for losing. We are widely reviled as enemies of Islam, yet in the 1990s we engaged three times in combat - in the Persian Gulf and in the Balkans - to rescue Kuwait, Bosnia...
...only does the mosque serve a religious function through its dome-topped prayer hall, it also serves as a college for religious education, a soup kitchen, a public bath and a fountain to serve the needs of the community...
...Aubrey commands his frigate, the Surprise, with strength, not bravado, and an ease and rigor that win the respect of his men. He also has what any bunch of superstitious sailors needs in a boss: a nose for good fortune. They call him Lucky Jack. His nickname is a prayer to the fickle Fates that rule the sea, his presence a guarantee that the crew's lives are in the best hands...
...knew immediately that I had been shot. I first prayed. I said a prayer that God would not let me die." CAROLINE SEAWELL, a survivor of the Washington-area sniper shootings, in testimony at the trial of suspect John Allen Muhammad...
With the clock ticking down and just 30 seconds to go, Schires heaved a prayer over the heads of his receivers on second-and-one and into a swarm of baby-blue jerseys. Once again, Nwokocha was there, pulling down his second interception of the game—equaling the Lions’ total for the entire season prior to Saturday...