Today I think that prayer is just simply a necessity, because by prayer I believe we mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that even our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. But if we can back off from those problems and make the effort, then there is something that ties us all together.
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.
Now this brings me to my main topic, our military strength, more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
The churches of America are citadels of our faith in individual freedom and human dignity. This faith is the living source of all our spiritual strength. And this strength is our matchless armor in our world-wide struggle against the forces of godless tyranny and oppression.
One American put it this way: "every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith".
The job of getting people really wanting to do something is the essence of leadership.
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.