Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.
Interpretation
This quote expresses gratitude for the blessings of the land while invoking a sense of responsibility to honor and serve a higher purpose.
In this quote, Franklin D. Roosevelt acknowledges the divine providence in providing for the nation and emphasizes the importance of humility and duty among its people. It reflects a collective aspiration to be grateful and dedicated to fulfilling a moral obligation towards the greater good, aligning with both spiritual values and civic responsibility.
In practice
This quote can be used during a national holiday to emphasize collective gratitude.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
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