Who wrote the "Serenity Prayer"?

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It?

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Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.”

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For more than 70 years, the composer of the prayer was thought to be the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, one of modern Christianity’s towering figures. Niebuhr, who died in 1971, said he was quite sure he had written it, and his wife, Ursula, also a prominent theologian, dated its composition to the early 1940s.

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Compare also: Wikipedia: Serenity Prayer.

I was at the Metro Womens' Center board meeting last night. Along the way I made the comment, "God will let us fall into His arms but never through them". I said "some famous preacher said that". No one knew who. I think it might have been Dr Clearwaters.