Native
American Prayer for Peace
O Great spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to
you; To your messengers in 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 in mind.
Let us learn to share all good things that you
provide for us on this Earth.
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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 who strike you on the cheek offer the other
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 them again.
And as you wish that others would to do you,
do so to them.
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Hindu
Prayer for Peace
Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real.
Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.
Oh God, lead us from death to immortality. Shanti,
Shanti, Shanti unto all.
O Lord God Almighty 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 Vedic Law propagate peace all through the
world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.
And may thy peace itself bestow peace on all.
And may that peace come to me also.
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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 wildernesses - the children, the aged, the
unprotected - be guarded by beneficent celestials,
and may they quickly attain Buddhahood.
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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.
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Jainist Prayer for Peace
Peace and Universal Love is the essence of the
Gospel preached by all the 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, perennial, 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.
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Jewish Prayer for Peace
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.
Nations 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.
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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 ocean surrounding
us?
I only earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff
away all the clouds which are hanging over the tops
of the mountains.
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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.
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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."
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The
Baha'i Prayer for Peace
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity.
Be fair in thy judgment, 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
upon the soil of the human heart,
and a fruit upon the tree of humility.
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Sikh
prayer for Peace
God adjudges us according to our deeds, not the
clothes that we wear;
That truth is above everything, but higher still is
truthful living.
Know that we attain God when we love, and only that
victory endures in consequences of which no one is
defeated.
