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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
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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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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
William Sloane Coffin
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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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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.
William Sloane Coffin
I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
William Sloane Coffin
