"We cardinals sure are praying a lot, " said Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, one of about a dozen leading candidates to become pope, who wrote in a blog post Friday.
But as his impoverished family knelt round his bed in their cabin in the dust of Oklahoma, praying a desperate prayer to the Lord, he saw his father's face fade into the countenance of Jesus.
Enzo, then age 7, decided to make a video about a praying mantis for a science project.
It is the one born out of a praying heart and a soul searching for purpose after tragedy.
Mr Roberts next saw Him, in 1980, as he stood praying by a giant unfinished skyscraper in Tulsa.
And for the four who remain missing, we are praying for a miracle.
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Other times your neighborhood is praying for a fair comparable from the auction.
But plaintiffs praying for a landmark case have little reason for hope.
Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and we are praying for a successful recovery for all of those who were injured.
Turkey's western partners are now praying for a quick resolution, and would enthusiastically back a new party led by Mr Cem and Mr Ozkan.
Michelle and I have their family and their friends in our thoughts and prayers and we are praying for a speedy recovery for those who were injured.
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Who's going to win the next roll of the dice--fixed-income savers praying for deflation, even if that means another Great Depression, or fixed-rate mortgage borrowers praying for a weak dollar?
Which leaves the Sauternes producers praying for a change in fashion, back to a time, more than a century ago, when their wine was among the most sought-after in the world.
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Indeed, people worried about potentially cheating spouses may find praying together a better safeguard against adultery than checking mobile-phone bills and scrutinising credit-card receipts and one that builds trust, rather than destroying it.
"I have been praying for a new pope to be just like Pope John Paul II, who was close to the people and was very humble, " said Charlene Bautista, an insurance broker.
Collins and mission specialist Charles Camarda carefully sidestepped any suggestion of divine intervention, but many in Nasa will be praying for a swift fix to the foam debris problem so that its fleet can begin flying again.
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As dusk fell, the Pope returned to Jerusalem where he visited the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, praying in a basilica built on the spot where the gospels recount Jesus' torment on the night before he was betrayed and arrested.
African Catholic women are praying for a future pope who will encourage African religious leaders to commit themselves to defending the rights of women to inheritance, land and to divorce, so that gender equality and respect for the dignity of the African woman can be achieved.
Within days, he had stopped shaving, in the orthodox Muslim fashion, and started praying five times a day.
He spent the first day of his retirement reading and praying, following a good night's sleep, Lombardi said Friday.
The author William Dalrymple describes seeing Christians and Muslims praying together in a Greek Orthodox convent in Syria a few years ago.
"Just recently, maybe two years ago, he started praying five times a day, which is, I don't see anything bad in it, " she said.
And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already done some research which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.
Fiat's American partner is also swinging the axe and praying for success with a new model.
Mr. Hamblin said that he spent a year praying and fasting before he took up snake handling in 2009.
She's praying for clemency from a Texas governor who has only once in more than 200 cases commuted a death sentence.
"I was praying there was still a chance, but I didn't make my vault, ' she said, "and a gold medal vaulter doesn't deserve to fall.
One such devotee is Steven Bragg, 36, who said he was introduced to La Santa Muerte in 2001 and began praying to her for a variety of different reasons, including a plea for a life companion.
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