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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. [ 16 ] In 1962, Hallmark began using the prayer in its graduation cards, crediting Niebuhr, [ 15 ] and in the 1970s they also produced a wall plaque.
But who wrote the serenity prayer? Early attempts by AA to identify its origins generated a long list of potential authors, including St. Francis of Assisi , Aristotle, Sophocles and ancient sages from Egypt to India.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a very infuential American theologian. He wrote what came to be known as the Serenity Prayer for a sermon, and used it in a variety of forms, including a longer-form poem. Below is the best-known version of it. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can,
The prayer gained fame when, during World War II or soon after, Alcoholics Anonymous ran across it and adopted it as a keystone of the 12-step program. The wording of AA's prayer, still used today, is as follows: 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.
One is that Niebuhr wrote the Serenity Prayer in the early or mid-1930s, it quickly disseminated through religious and other circles with the author’s identification largely forgotten, and the database occurrences are traces of that dissemination.
17 Ιουν 2014 · Nor was its author Cicero, Boethius, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, Francis of Assisi, or Thomas More. This simple yet expressive prayer wasn't laid down in antiquity by one of the most...
3 Αυγ 2017 · “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..” While the most popular version of the prayer, it is a truncation of Niebuhr’s original. The earliest written reference to the Serenity prayer dates to 1932 in a diary entry by Winnifred Crane Wygal.
