The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
There's days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don't. You just pray that doesn't happen the night of the fight.
A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'
Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.