Having just been listening to the news about riots etc, the following by Lao Tse came to mind (6th-century BC): If there is to…

God of all grace Who in Jesus cried, ‘I thirst’, Hold the people of east Africa in your infinite love. Be with those…

Love is patient, love is kind, it has no enemies It perseveres in the face of adversity – it never gives up Love…

  Give me my scallop shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle…

We offer up again our souls and bodies to you to be governed, not by our will, but yours. O let it be…

The Church of England has offered a prayer for the Olympics.  It has been composed by the Rev Christopher Woods, the Church of…

Who can tell what a day may bring forth? Cause me therefore, gracious God, To live every day as if it were to…

O Heavenly Father in these few minutes of quiet stillness, I place myself and all my problems humbly before You for your guidance…

God guide me with thy wisdom, God chastise me with thy justice, God help me with thy mercy, God protect me with thy…

Lord, temper with tranquillity, our manifold activity, that we may do our work for Thee, with very great simplicity. Sixteenth Century Prayer

O merciful Father, do not consider what we have done against you; but what our blessed Savior has done for us. Do not…

Spirit of the Living Christ, come upon us in the glory of your risen power; Spirit of the Living Christ, come upon us…

O Jesus, poor and abject, unknown and despised, have mercy upon me, and let me not be ashamed to follow thee. O Jesus,…

I stumbled across this prayer for Lent on the Methodist Church web site and thought you might find it helpful: Forgive us Lord…