My Favorite Prayers
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was an American theologian and author, pioneered the philosophy of "Christian realism"; wrote Nature and Destiny of Man, 1943; received Medal of Freedom, 1964.
Niebuhr quotes
Serenity Prayer
"God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time
Enjoying one moment at a time
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace
Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is
not as I would have it
Trusting that You, God, will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
The Serenity Prayer (1934); Originally part of a sermon
in 1943, later broadly used by Alcoholics Anonymous
after quotation by June Bingham,
Courage to Change, Charles Scribner & Sons, 1961.
Murray Moerman (