[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 19 (Tuesday, March 3, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S1215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, righteous, holy Judge of us all, we are accountable to You. 
Every word we speak and action we take is heard and seen by You. Remind 
us that You bless those who humble themselves and put their trust in 
You completely. There's no limit to what You will do for a country and 
its leaders if You are glorified as Sovereign.
  May the knowledge of Your blessings to our Nation bring a deeper 
commitment to You. We want our motto, ``In God we trust'' to be more 
than an egregious exaggeration. Begin a spiritual awakening in us that 
will spread throughout our Nation. You have told us, ``Where there is 
no vision the people perish . . . ''--Proverbs 29:18. And we remember 
Thomas Jefferson's warning, ``God who gave us life, gave us liberty. 
Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a 
conviction that these liberties are the gifts of God?'' With these 
words ringing in our souls, grant the Senators and all of us who work 
with them the courage to reaffirm You as Lord to whom we are 
responsible for the moral, spiritual, and cultural life of America. In 
the name of our Savior. Amen.

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