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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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Pastor
New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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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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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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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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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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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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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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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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