All in Good Faith

Author(s): Jean Potter, Marcus Braybrooke
Publisher: World Congress of Faiths

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All in Good Faith
O Man!
The one you are thinking of killing is [no one but] yourself. The one you are ordering about is yourself. The one you are thinking of putting in misery is yourself. The one you are thinking of catching is yourself. Think of this. With this sort of understanding you will have equality [Friendship] with all living beings. Knowing that everyone has to bear the fruits of his own deeds, one should not kill any living beings. (Acharanga Sutra)
may there be peace in the May the waters flow
May there be peace in the higher regions; firmament; may there be peace on earth. peacefully; may the herbs and plants grow peacefully; may all the living powers bring unto us peace. The supreme Lord is peace. May we all be in peace, peace and only peace; and may that peace come unto each of Shant, shanti, shanti.
us.
(Vedas)
We ask that we live and labour in peace, Each man shall be our neighbour in peace, Distrust and hatred shall turn to love, All the prisoners freed,
And our only war will be the one
Against all human need.
Eternal God
Eternal Ruler
who makes peace and creates all things;
Help all of us, that we may ever adhere to the concept of peace,
so that true and abundant peace prevail between man and man, between husband and wife,
and no strife separate humanity even in thought.
You make peace in your heavens, you bring contrary elements
harmoniously together:
(Donald Swann)
Extend abundant peace to us and to the whole world,
so that all discords be resolved in great love and peace and with one mind
and one heart all come near to you and your law in truth, and all form one union to do your will with a whole heart. Eternal God of peace, bless us with peace.
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy 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.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
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(Nahman of Bratzlav)
(St. Francis of Assisi)