Lord, make me an instrument of Thy 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;
It is in dying to self that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy 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;
It is in dying to self that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen." in the context of "Widely known as The Prayer of St. Francis, it is not found in Esser's authoritative collection of Francis's writings.
• Esser, OFM, ed., Fr. Kajetan (1978), Opuscula Sancti Patris Francisci Assisiensis place: Rome, publisher: Grottaferrata. Additionally there is no record of this prayer before the twentieth century.
• Armstrong, OFM, Fr. Regis J. (1982), Francis and Clare: The Complete Works page: 10, place: New York, publisher: Paulist Press, ISBN: 0-8091-2446-7. Dr. Christian Renoux of the University of Orleans in France traces the origin of the prayer to an anonymous 1912 contributor to La Clochette, a publication of the Holy Mass League in Paris. It was not until 1927 that it was attributed to St. Francis.
• Renoux, Christian The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, retrieved: 2013-06-28.
• Renoux, Christian (2001), La prière pour la paix attribuée à saint François: une énigme à résoudre place: Paris, publisher: Editions franciscaines, ISBN: 2-85020-096-4." to mean that wisdom is timeless.