What is your favourite prayer?

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Just wondering what people's favourite prayers are and why?

My answer is not a very creative one I'm afraid, my favourite prayer is the our father. I like this prayer because it's a simple and powerful prayer that lets God know exactly what is on your mind.

[Bellringer]

From too much zeal for what is new
And contempt for what is old
From putting knowledge before wisdom
Science before Art
And cleverness before common sense
Good Lord Deliver Us

[jake-the-peg]

O Lord,
Ooh, You are so big.
So absolutely huge.
Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and...
And barefaced flattery.
But You are so strong and, well, just so super.
Fantastic.
Amen.

( thanks to the blessed Pythons )

[Theland]

The Lords prayer, (Our Father .... ),
as it is concise, and all inclusive.

[Lonnie]

The Shema.

Hear, Israel. the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is one.
Blessed be the name of his glorious kingdom for ever and ever.
And you shall love the Lord your G-d with all you heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
And these words that I command you today, shall be in your heart.
And you shall teach them diligently to your childre, and you shall speak of them.
When you sit at home, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates.

[saxy_jag]

I'm not religious and I don't pray, but for sheer poetry the Prayer of St Francis of Assisi takes some beating:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

[Clanad]

Here's the first two verses in Hebrew, Lonnie

Sh'ma Yis'ra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad
Barukh sheim k'vod malkhuto l'olam va'ed

Bamashiach, Yeshua, barukh hu! Shalom!

[Ethmer]

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i have two favorites which are:


"Our God, our Guides, and fellow Spirits, we thank Thee for Thy countenance. Pray continue to abide with us."

and

"For that which we are about to consume, we are thankful. May its furtherance of Being, through us, be glorified and we pray we may learn to appreciate its life as its death."
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[demondentist]

Dear god. Please let the winning numbers in Saturday's
�12,000,000 rollover be the same as the ones on my ticket.
Amen.

[Queenbee spk]

Oh angel of God my guardian dear, to whom Gods love permits me hear, every day be at my side, to light and guard to rule and guide Amen.

That prayer really makes me feel at peace