Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

One of the early signposts of western civilization, even expunging the Christian content from it, it would survive the test of human - divine communication, the following is the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi.

The English version of the prayer reads as follows:


Lord, make me an instrument of your 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;
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.
Amen.