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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
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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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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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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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We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
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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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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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