Therefore We Are Saved By Hope

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope.Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.                                               Reinhold Niebuhr