An appendix indicates that the much loved «Prayer of Saint Francis» («Lord, make
me an instrument of your peace / Where there is hatred, let me sow love...) was written in the early twentieth century and, by a circuitous route, ended up being attributed to the saint.
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.
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.
It's not really comfortable, but it always is a joy to be
an instrument of peace and reconciliation.
Lord, make
me an instrument of Your peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is discord, harmony; Where there is error, truth; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.
Lord, make
me an instrument of your peace.
The weapons of war are converted into
the instruments of peace.
(I must say that LORD, MAKE
ME AN INSTRUMENT OF YOUR PEACE and OUR HEARTS ARE RESTLESS UNTIL THEY FIND THEIR REST IN YOU look a little funny in all caps.)
We gather at the threshold of Christmas — a feast of peace and of good will to all — mindful of our call to be bearers and
instruments of peace and good will, especially on behalf of those at the margins of society and those who suffer most keenly at this season of the year.
that converts all their weapons to
instruments of peace and for a people that will care so much for others that no person will become so warped and disengaged that he will decide to do such evil.
Twice Stone recites The Prayer of St. Francis: «Lord, make
me an instrument of your peace.
Throughout the movie, the war - obsessed boy turned soldier un-ironically prays for God to «make
me an instrument of your peace.»
Poetry is
an instrument of peace, among children and adults alike.