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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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
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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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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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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.
William Sloane Coffin
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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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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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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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
William Sloane Coffin
We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
William Sloane Coffin
Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
William Sloane Coffin
The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
William Sloane Coffin
