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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. 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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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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