Serenity Prayer

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

Background:

http://www.aahistory.com/prayer.html

http://manetheren.cl.msu.edu/~vanhoose/quotes/0005.html

http://lantana.to/Serenity1/prayer.html

http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/referate/theologie/oetgeb00.html

Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy, Translated by: W.V. Cooper. London: J.M. Dent, 1902. The Temple Classics.