Popular Prayers
Make Me An Instrument Of Your Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
Seek to be consoled as to console,
Not so much to be understood as to understand,
Not so much to be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
It is in dying that we awake to eternal life.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Prayer For Our Nation
Our Father and Our God,
We praise you for your goodness to our nation,
Giving us blessings far beyond what we deserve.
Yet we know all is not right with America.
We deeply need a moral and spiritual renewal
To help us meet the many problems we face.
Convict us of sin.
Help us to turn to you in repentance and faith.
Set our feet on the path of your righteousness and peace.
We pray today for our nation's leaders.
Give them the wisdom to know what is right, and the courage to do it.
You have said, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."
May this be a new era for America,
As we humble ourselves and acknowledge you alone as our Savior and Lord.
This we pray in your holy name,
Amen.
- Rev. Billy Graham
Christ Be With Me
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise,
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every one who speaks to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Salvation is of the Lord.
Salvation is of the Christ.
May your salvation, Lord, be ever with us.
Amen.
- St. Patrick