Prayer for Peace Among Nations

Grant, O Lord,
That we may approach every question of foreign policy from the point of sight of our creed;
That we may check in ourselves and in others every temper which makes for war, all ungenerous judgments, all pressumptuous claims, all promptings of self-assertion, the growths of ignorance and passion;
That we may endeavor to understand the needs, the feelings, the endowments, the traditional aspirations of other countries;
That we may do gladly, unweariedly, patiently, what lies in us to remove suspicions and misunderstandings;
That we may honor all people.

Amen.

--Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, 1890-1901