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|text=Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
therefore, we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
therefore, we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, could be accomplished alone;
therefore, we must be saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint;
therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
|sign=[[Reinhold Niebuhr]]
|source=''[http://www.amazon.com/Irony-American-History-Reinhold-Niebuhr/dp/0226583988 The Irony of American History - 1952]''
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