Bahai 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 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 age, the unprotected

be guarded by beneficial celestials,

And may they swiftly attain Buddhahood

Prudence, Wisdom, and Humaneness:

Grant us prudence in proportion to our power,

wisdom in proportion to our science,

humaneness in proportion to our wealth and might.

And bless all races and peoples who travel in friendship

along the road to justice, liberty and lasting peace.

(Conference of European Churches, Gloria Deo Worship Book 1986)

Prayer for Peace

Mother Teresa and The Sisters of Charity

Lord, make me a channel of your peace,

That where there is hatred, I may bring love:

Where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness:

Where there is discord, I may bring harmony:

Where there is error, I may bring truth:

Where there is doubt, I may bring faith:

Where there is despair, I may bring hope:

Where there are shadows, I may bring light:

Where there is sadness, I may bring joy:

Lord, grant I may seek rather

To comfort than to be comforted;

To understand than to be understood;

To love than to be loved;

For it is by forgetting self that one finds

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven,

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.

Amen.

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 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 of those who take away your goods,

do not ask for them again.

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Hindu Peace Prayer

I desire neither earthly kingdom,

nor even freedom from birth and death.

I desire only the deliverance from grief

of all those afflicted by misery.

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).

The 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

0 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

A Prayer for the Bombed Out,

Burned Out, Driven Out!

Lord God, we pray for all the

bombed out, burned out, driven out,

relocated, wondering, wandering,

unwilling pilgrims in this world.

Forgive us for our part in uprooting them.

Restore their lives, make us partners within the rebuilding of their lives.

We pray in the name of the Son of Man who had no place to lay His head.

(by Arnold Kenseth and Richard Unsworth

In Prayers for Worship Leaders)

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, perrinial, and unalterable way of spiritual life.

A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be,

can always be superseded by a superior one;

but no weapon can, however, be superior to non-violence and love

Jewish Peace Prayer

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.

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.

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.

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 knoweth all things.

And the servants of God,

Most gracious are those who walk on

the Earth in humility, and when we address them, we say "PEACE."

Native 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.

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.

Shinto Prayer for Peace

Although the people living across the ocean surrounding us,

I believe are all our brothers and sisters,

why are there constant troubles in this world?

Why do 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 mountains.