I agree with you that it would have been better if the true words were stickied, and we were left to judge and interpret as we want - we would all have done it in the same way. But thing is, this is what he meant... and OP offered an interpretation, which is the right one. OP's words were not all between quotation marks, so he was clearly not quoting Biden, just quoting the part where he said "praying". So, the rest textually reflected his own opinion.

I agree with you that it would have been better if the true words were stickied, and we were left to judge and interpret as we want - we would all have done it in the same way. But thing is, this is what he meant... and OP offered an interpretation, which is the right one.