World Council of Churches Prayer

Eternal God,
whose image lies in the hearts of all people,

We live among peoples
whose ways are different from ours,
whose faiths are foreign to us,
whose tongues are unintelligible to us.

Help us to remember
that you love all people
with your great love,
that all religion
is an attempt to respond to you,
that the yearnings of other hearts
are much like our own
and are known to you.

Help us to recognize you
in the words of truth,
the things of beauty,
the actions of love about us.

We pray through Christ,
who is a stranger to no one land
more than another,
and.to every land
no less than to another.