During an email exchange with a friend, I suggested that it would be great if Congress were to invoke Psalm 139:6--"Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it"--when asked how they are going to fix the minute details of the current financial mess, and it would be great if they applied this to policy-making in general. I then sent him a Hayekian adaptation of the serenity prayer:

"God, please grant me the ability to learn the things I don't know, the serenity to accept that there are things I can't know, and the wisdom to know the difference."