Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.<br />Where there is hatred, let me sow love,<br />Where there is injury, pardon;<br />Where there is doubt, faith;<br />Where there is despair, hope;<br />Where there is darkness, light;<br />And where there is sadness, joy.<br /><br />O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek<br /> to be consoled as to console,<br /> to be understood as to understand,<br /> to be loved, as to love.<br /><br />For it is in giving that we receive,<br />It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,<br />and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.