Smile, Pain, Saving graces

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our
pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is
his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
~ C.S. Lewis

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