[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 103 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S8841]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised and His greatness is 
unsearchable. I will mediate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty--
Psalm 145: 3, 5.
  Almighty God, help us to think magnificently about You: Your glory 
and grace, Your greatness and goodness, Your peace and power. We 
acknowledge that our prayer is like dipping water from the ocean with a 
teaspoon. Whatever we receive of Your infinite wisdom and guidance, it 
is infinitesimal in comparison to Your limitless resources. So we come 
humbly and gratefully to receive, to draw from Your divine intelligence 
what we need for today's deliberations and decisions. We thank You for 
the women and men of this Senate and their staffs who support their 
work. Help them humbly to ask for Your perspective on perplexities and 
then receive Your direction. Give them new vision, innovative 
solutions, and fresh enthusiasm. We commit this day to love and serve 
You with our minds. Today, when votes are counted on crucial decisions, 
help them neither to relish victory nor nurse the discouragement of 
defeat, but do everything to maintain the bond of unity in the midst of 
differences and then move forward. This we pray in Your holy name. 
Amen.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair, in his capacity as a Senator 
from the State of South Carolina, suggests the absence of a quorum.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. SANTORUM. I thank the Chair.

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