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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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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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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
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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 so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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