 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.  A Date on Cloud Nine - Page 79by Jenna McKnight - 2009 - 384 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Alan L. Roeck, Anonymous - Self-Help - 1980 - 196 pages
...place where I belong. I am content. I do not vainly wish for things I cannot have. I have "the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change...things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." Have I found contentment in AA? Meditation for the Day In all of us there is an inner consciousness... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1969 - 448 pages
...by Al-Anon principles, and be guided day by day by the serenity prayer: "God grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, COURAGE to change the things I can, and WISliflH to know the difference." WHAT AL-ANON MEANS TO FAMILIES OF ALCOHOLICS The wife of an alcoholic... | |
 | Charles H. Harris, Charles B. Harris - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 166 pages
...Slaughterhouse-Five provides the answer to these questions. "God grant me the serenity," it reads, "to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference" (181). Certain things, then, lie within man's control. Included would... | |
 | Grateful Members, Jerry Hirschfield - Self-Help - 1987 - 148 pages
...reproduce it here in the abbreviated form adopted by all Twelve Step fellowships: 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. Amen. The repeated use of this prayer has kept many troubled people on a calm, even keel, many an alcoholic... | |
 | Karen Fiala - Self-Help - 2006 - 450 pages
...better or easier for yourself and others. (Our web database has more ideas.) "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference." The Serenity Prayer For a long time we waited for someone else... | |
 | Kelley Keehn - Business & Economics - 2009 - 246 pages
...Niebuhr where he states so simply and eloquently the rightful place for worry: God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. Really, there are only two types of worries: Those that you... | |
 | L. G. Parkhurst, Jr. - Religion - 2006 - 269 pages
...Reinhold Neibuhr, but a common example of one of them is reprinted below. God, grant me the Serenity To accept the things I cannot change 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... | |
 | Linda Ostrander - 2006 - 291 pages
...of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. " MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Day: 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. " ANONYMOUS Day: "Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain... | |
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