| Mr. Decker could not resist the petitionary grace of those white hands and that sensitive mouth, and took her to his arms. |
| A different puzzle concerning the effectiveness of petitionary prayer arises in connection with divine omniscience, the idea that God knows everything that can be known. |
| Therefore, most women are not accustomed to praying regularly, since they say a petitionary prayer after the ritual of washing their hands in the morning, and biblically this is sufficient. |
| That side of Oliver's work is necessary to fully appreciate her in her usual exhortatory or petitionary mode. |
| Do its requests represent the best modern conception of prayer as an inward aspiration rather than as petitionary? |
| The hasidic solution is that petitionary prayer is not at all for the sake of man but ultimately for the sake of God. |
