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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
Activist
Pastor
New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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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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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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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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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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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.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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