Editing Kyösti Kallio (section)

==Religious views==
[[File:Tasavallan presidentti Kyösti Kallio pelaamassa tennistä Kultarannassa.jpg|thumb|right|President Kyösti Kallio playing tennis at [[Kultaranta]]]]
A significant part of Kallio's personality and a motive for the social reforms which he supported and promoted was his deep Christian faith, which he had adopted already at home, and which was deepened during his marriage to [[Kaisa Kallio|Kaisa Nivala]], who was also a devout Christian. Although Kallio was often too busy to go to church, he prayed often when encountering difficulties in making political decisions, and some of these prayers he recorded in his diary. He also read Christian books with his wife and often discussed them by exchanging letters. He often referred to God in his speeches, and during the Winter War he asked the Finns who were serving their country to read the Bible. When he was forced to sign the harsh [[Moscow Peace Treaty]] in March 1940, Kallio quoted freely from the [[Book of Zechariah]], saying: {{blockquote|"May my hand, which is forced to sign such a paper, wither."}} His right arm was paralysed the following summer, and he was forced to switch his writing hand. In the [[Presidential Palace, Helsinki|Presidential Palace]], shortly before leaving for Helsinki Central Railway Station for the last time, Kallio sang a hymn with his family.<ref name="auto"/><ref>Hokkanen, "A Biography of Kyösti Kallio, II"; "The Presidents of the Republic 1931-1940". Helsinki, 1994</ref><ref>''Kyösti Kallion puheet'' (Speeches of Kyösti Kallio, in Finnish) Helsinki, 1941</ref>
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