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The Prayer of Saint Francis
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
Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled… as to console
To be understood… as to understand,
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 are born to eternal life
Hindu Prayer for Peace
Oh Lord, lead us from the unreal to the real;
from darkness to light; from death to immortality.
May there be peace in celestial regions.
May there be peace on earth.
May the waters be appeasing.
May herbs be wholesome and may trees and plants bring peace to
all.
May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.
May thy wisdom spread peace all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to all and to me.
Om. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti (Peace, Peace, Peace).
Christian Prayer for Peace
Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS,
for they shall be known as the Children of God.
But I say to you: love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you,
bless those who curse you,
pray for those who abuse you.
To those that strike you on the cheek,
offer the other one also,
and from those who take away your cloak,
do not withhold your coat as well.
Give to everyone who begs from you,
and, to those who take away your goods,
do not ask for them again.
And as you wish that others would do unto you,
do so unto them as well.
Islamic Prayer for Peace
In the name of Allah,
the beneficent, the merciful.
Praise be to the Lord of the
Universe who has created us and
made us into tribes and nations.
Give us wisdom that we may know
each other and not despise all things.
We shall abide by thy Peace.
And, we shall remember the servants
of God are those who walk on this Earth
in humility and, when we address them,
we shall say Peace Unto Us All.
Jewish Prayer for Peace
Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, that we may walk
the paths of the Most High. And we shall beat our swords into
ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not
lift up sword against nation—neither shall they learn war any
more. And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of
Hosts has spoken.
Baha’i Prayer for Peace
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity.
Be fair in thy judgement and guarded in thy speech.
Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness
and a home to the stranger.
Be eyes to the blind and a guiding light unto the feet of the
erring.
Be a breath of life to the body of humankind,
a dew to the soil of the human heart
and a fruit upon the tree of humility.
Buddhist Prayer for Peace
May all beings everywhere plagued
with sufferings of body and mind
quickly be freed from their illnesses.
May those frightened cease to be afraid,
and may those bound be free.
May the powerless find power,
and may people think of befriending one another.
May those who find themselves in trackless,
fearful wilderness—the children, the aged, the unprotected—
be guarded by beneficial celestials,
and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.
Jainist Prayer for Peace
Peace and Universal Love is the essence
of the Gospel preached by all Enlightened Ones.
The Lord has preached that equanimity is the dharma.
Forgive do I creatures all, and let all creatures forgive me.
Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity.
Know that violence is the root cause of all miseries in the world.
Violence, in fact, is the knot of bondage.
“Do not injure any living being.”
This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterable way of spiritual
life.
Native American Prayer for Peace
Oh Great Spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind to each other
so that they may grow with peace of mind.
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.
Zoroastrian Prayer for Peace
We pray to God to eradicate all the misery in the world:
that understanding triumph over ignorance,
that generosity triumph over indifference,
that trust triumph over contempt, and
that truth triumph over falsehood.
Unity Prayer for Protection
The light of God surrounds you,
The love of God enfolds you,
The power of God protects you,
The presence of God watches over you,
Wherever you are, God is.
—James Dillet Freeman
Sikh Prayer for Peace
God adjudges us according to our deeds, not the coat that we wear:
that Truth is above everything, but higher still is truthful living.
Know that we attaineth God when we loveth, and only victory
endures in consequences of which no one is defeated.