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The prayer is frequently used by Alcoholics Anonymous, which uses it in a slightly different form.

An Alcoholics Anonymous website reports: " What is undisputed is the claim of authorship by the theologian Dr. Rheinhold Niebuhr, who recounted to interviewers on several occasions that he had written the prayer as a ' tag line ' to a sermon he had delivered on Practical Christianity.

Yet even Dr. Niebuhr added at least a touch of doubt to his claim when he told one interviewer, ' Of course, it may have been spooking around for years, even centuries, but I don't think so.

I honestly do believe that I wrote it myself.

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