Cadet Prayer

O God, our Father, Thou Searcher of human hearts,
help us to draw near to Thee in sincerity and truth.
May our religion be filled with gladness and may our worship of Thee be natural.
Strengthen and increase our admiration for honest dealing and clean thinking,
and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretense ever to diminish.
Encourage us in our endeavor to live above the common level of life.
Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong,
and never to be content with a half truth when the whole can be won.
Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy,
that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when truth and right are in jeopardy.
Guard us against flippancy and irreverence in the sacred things of life.
Grant us new ties of friendship and new opportunities of service.
Kindle our hearts in fellowship with those of a cheerful countenance,
and soften our hearts with sympathy for those who sorrow and suffer.
Help us to maintain the honor of the Corps untarnished and unsullied and to show forth in our lives the ideals of West Point in doing our duty to Thee and to our Country.
All of which we ask in the name of the Great Friend and Master of all.
Amen
—    From the United States Military Academy at West Point web site
The actual page is:  http://www.usma.edu/chaplain/SitePages/Cadet%20Prayer.aspx
[With apologies to the USMA at West Point, I’ve reformatted the “Cadet’s Prayer” to be slightly more pleasing to my eye.  Please visit the site to view the prayer in it’s regular format.   —   kmab]
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