" The earliest known version of the prayer, from 1937, attributes the prayer to Niebuhr in this version:"Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other.
Пожалуй, наиболее известным произведением Нибура является «Молитва о душевном покое»:<poem>God, give us grace to accept with serenitythe things that cannot be changed,Courage to change the thingswhich should be changed,and the Wisdom to distinguishthe one from the other.