The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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- Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- 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.
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