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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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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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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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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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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
William Sloane Coffin
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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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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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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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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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, Let justice roll down like mighty waters, and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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.
William Sloane Coffin
I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. 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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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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