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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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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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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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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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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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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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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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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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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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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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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