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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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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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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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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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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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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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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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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