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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
William Sloane Coffin
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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
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The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
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In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
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