...than this expression of accepting with grace our temporariness and imperfection. To hold this view leads to a living humility that becomes empathy, forgiveness, and the wisdom to live connected to the eternal rather than the moment. I may post this every day. I will certainly repeat it every day until I can call it to mind in any moment when I am trying to control the uncontrollable, or judge others out of weakness.
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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
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