| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 4238 |
| AUTHOR: | Reinhold Niebuhr |
| QUOTATION: | God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Originally part of a sermon in 1943 and later used by Alcoholics Anonymous, quoted by June Bingham Courage to Change Scribner’s 61 |
| SUBJECTS: | Humankind: Religion: Spirituality |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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