The Startling Spirituality of America's Founders

George Washington

George Washington
_{1st U.S. President}

"Your prayers for my present and future felicity are received with gratitude; and I sincerely wish, Gentlemen, that you may in your social and individual capacities taste those blessings, which a gracious God bestows upon the righteous."

_{Letter to the members of The New Church in Baltimore, January 22, 1793, published in The Writings Of George Washington (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 201}