<Dd> God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, </Dd> <Dd> Courage to change the things I can, </Dd> <Dd> and the Wisdom to know the difference . </Dd> <P> The earliest recorded reference to the prayer is a diary entry from 1932 by Winnifred Crane Wygal, a pupil and collaborator of Reinhold Niebuhr, quoting the prayer and attributing it to Niebuhr . Several versions of the prayer then appeared in newspaper articles in the early 1930s written by, or reporting on talks given by, Wygal . In 1940, Wygal included the following form of the prayer in a book on worship, attributing it to Niebuhr: </P>

God give me the strength to know the difference quote