More on the Serenity Prayer (Hartford Courant)

[Baker, John]

        Some sources attribute the prayer to "Bishop Oliver J. Hart" or
to "Oliver J. Hart (1723-1795)," whose version of the prayer supposedly
read "God give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be
changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed,
and the wisdom to know one from the other."  There don't seem to be many
references to Hart that don't refer to the prayer.  Is there any reason
to believe that Hart, whoever he was, may have written this Fortitude
Prayer?


John Baker


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Subject: More on the Serenity Prayer (Hartford Courant)

Carolyn Lumsden, editorial writer for *The Courant*, has a nice piece in
today's paper on Fred Shapiro and his recent research into the origins
of the Serenity Prayer,

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-quotes.artjul20,0,1223
770.
story

or

http://tinyurl.com/5jttf9

-- Bonnie

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