Below are excerpts from prayers and devotions local religious leaders offered at the Sept. 11 service on Tuesday:

“I also ask that you remember the survivors of that tragic event and their families. They were affected by this event in such a profound and long-lasting way. We need to remember them, and remember that they need your help and our help to overcome the damage that was done to them.”

— Herb Horstmann, congregational leader at St. Paul Lutheran Church

“We thank thee that we are able to come together this day and share our love and be unified in sharing these events. We ask that all those who suffered or continue to suffer at the memory of these events will be able to have thy spirit with them, and we will be able to come together and give back greater love.”

— Elder Gavin Strawn, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“Since all of us will not live here in this world twice, what can each of us do for this world and society? We should think about it day-by-day and each single moment.”

— The Rev. Katsuya Kusunoki, Lodi Buddhist Church

“About 3,000 people were killed that day but the consequences of that event are much larger than those 3,000 people. ... The consequences and effects of this will continue for a long, long time. Remember them in your prayers.”

— Taj Khan, Lodi Muslim Mosque

“Wonderful people do ordinary things but when God touches them, they become extraordinary. It’s that ordinary desire that says you are your brother’s keeper, and that I must help someone along the way, so I have not lived in vain. That makes a difference.”

— Salvation Army Capt. Martin Ross

“There have been thousands and thousands and thousands of lives that have been affected by this tragedy. There’s still people who are suffering because they lost their husband or their uncle or someone in this tragedy. Even though this is a tragic event, we need to remember these things and prevent anything like this from happening again.”

— Deacon Karl Welsbacher, St. Anne’s Catholic Church

“We are all created by the light, by the soul of god, and we are all equal and that gives us the sense of brotherhood. ... An atrocity to another human being is an atrocity unto God. In every heart God dwells and we are supposed to not hurt anyone’s heart.”

— Bal Bahadur Singh Paul with the Deshmesh Darbar Temple, the Lodi Sikh temple