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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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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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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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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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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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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 is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
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