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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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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
William Sloane Coffin
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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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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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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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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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 beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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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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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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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.
William Sloane Coffin
All of life is the exercise of risk.
William Sloane Coffin
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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