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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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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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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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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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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