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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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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age neither sex nor sexual preference race nor mind-set.
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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
William Sloane Coffin
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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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, Let justice roll down like mighty waters, and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
William Sloane Coffin
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
William Sloane Coffin
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
William Sloane Coffin
It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
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