PRAYER OF ST. 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 undersood ... as to understand
To be loved... as to love
For it is in giving... that we recieve
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned
It is in dying... that we are born to eternal life.
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BAHA'I PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity
Be fair in judgement, and guarded in thy speech
Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger
Be eyes to he 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 humanity.
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BUDDHIST PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind be quickly 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.
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be known as the children of God.
But I say to you that hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
To those who strike you on the cheek, offer the other one also, and from those that take away the cloak, do not withold your coat as well.
Give to everyone who begs from you, and those who take away your goods, do not ask for them again.
And as you wish others would do to you, do so to them.
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HINDU PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
Oh God, Lead us from the unreal to the real
Oh god, Lead us from darkness to light.
Oh God lead us from death to immortality.
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto us all
Oh Lord God Almighty, May there be peace in celestial regions.
May there be Peace on Earth.
May the waters be appeasing.
May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.
May the vedic law propagate peace all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.
And may thy peace itself, bestow peace on all and may peace come to me also.
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JAINIST PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
Peace and Universal Love is thy 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 I have amity, and unto none enmity.
Know the 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.
A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be, and can always be superseded by a superior one but no weapon can, however, be superior to nonviolence and love.
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JEWISH PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
Come let us go up the mountain of the Lord, that we may walk the paths of the most high.
And we shall beat our swords into plowshares, and our spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.
Neither shall not learn war anymore.
Ando none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.
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MUSLIM 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.
That we may know each other, not that we may despise each other.
If the enemy incline towards peace, do thou also incline towards peace, and trust God, for the Lord is the one that heareth and knowest all things.
Most Gracious are those who walk on the Earth in humility, and we address them, we say " PEACE"
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AFRICAN PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
Almighty God, the great thumb we cannot evade to tie any knot,
the roaring thunder that splits mighty trees, the all-seeing Lord up on high who sees even the footprints of an antelope on a rock mass here on Earth. You are the one who does not hesitate to respond to our call. You are the cornerstone of peace. You provide for us on this Earth.
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SHINTO PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
Although the people living across the ocean surronding us, I believe are all our brothers and sisters, why are there constant troubles in this world?
Why do the winds and waves rise in the oceans surrounding us?
I only earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff away all the clouds which are hanging over the tops of the mountains.
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SIKH PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
God judges 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 we loveth, and only victory endures in consequences of which no one is defeated.
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ZAROASTRIAN PRAYER FOR PEACE ~
We pray to eradicate all 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.
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