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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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New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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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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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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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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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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