Keep me, O Lord, from all pettiness!  Let me be large in thought and word and deed.

Let me leave off self-seeking and be done with faultfinding.

Help me to put away all pretense, that I may meet my neighbor face to face without self-pity and without prejudice.

May I never be hasty in judgment, but generous to all and in all.  Make me grow calm, serene, and gentle.

Teach me to put into action my better impulses, and make me straight-forward and unafraid.

Grant that I may realize that is the trifling things in life which create differences; that in all the higher things we are all one.

And O Lord God, let me not forget to be kind!

• Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots)