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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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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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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age neither sex nor sexual preference race nor mind-set.
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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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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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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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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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It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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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