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To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world. Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish. But in our troubled time, the right of men to think and worship as their conscience dictates is being sorely pressed. We can retain these privileges only by being constantly on guard and fighting off any encroachment on these precepts. To retreat from any of the principles handed down by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still embrace, would be a complete victory for those who would destroy liberty and justice for the individual.

Walt Disney#40

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Disney argues prayer is a request for strength to uphold human impulses and liberty.
In plain terms
Prayer seeks strength to maintain good impulses and protect freedom.
What can you take from it?
Protecting liberty requires constant vigilance and moral strength.

Where it applies

  • civic duty
  • personal faith
  • social justice

Putting it to work

  • defending civil liberties
  • cultivating moral strength

Questions to consider

  • What binds society together?
  • How do we protect freedom?

Another view

The view assumes shared human impulses that may not exist.

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