George Washington

O eternal and everlasting God, ...increase my faith in the sweet promises of the gospel; give me repentance from dead works; pardon my wandering, and direct my thoughts unto thyself, the God of my salvation; teach me how to live in the fear, labor in thy service, and ever to run in the ways of they commandments; make me always watchful over my heart, that neither the terrors of conscience, the loathing of holy duties, the love of sin, nor an unwillingness to depart this life, may cast me into a spiritual slumber, but daily frame me more and more into the likeness of they son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in they appointed time attain the resurrection of the just unto eternal life bless my family, friends, and kindred.

--Undated prayer from Washington's prayer journal, Mount Vernon.

Taken from If My People, by Thomas Nelson Publishing.