宁静的祈祷（中英文对照）

The Serenity Prayer

宁静的祈祷

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;

愿上帝赐予我宁静（的心）去接受我不能改变的事，

courage to change the things I can;

赐予我勇气去改变我能够改变的事，

and wisdom to know the difference.

赐予我智慧去分辨这两者的不同。

Living one day at a time;

活在当下，

Enjoying one moment at a time;

享受每一个瞬间，

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

承受通往安乐之路的苦难。

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

像上帝那样，接纳这世界（的全部），

as it is, not as I would have it;

即使它本相罪孽，（亦）非我所愿。

Trusting that He will make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

相信上帝，如果我顺应他的意志，凡事将归于正途。

That I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with Him

Forever in the next.

那样我便可今生适得其乐，来生与上帝同在，永享无上幸福。

Amen.

阿门！

---Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), 1934

——雷茵霍尔德·尼布尔（1892-1971），1934