Sunday, 25 July 2010

Hope, Faith and Love

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, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

- Reinhold Niebuhr -

Quote found at the beginning of the book, 'How the Irish Saved Civilization', by Thomas Cahill.

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