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Love is in the giver, not the gift.

William Sloane Coffin

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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
Activist
Pastor
New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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Giver
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Love

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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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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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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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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 love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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