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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.
William Sloane Coffin
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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
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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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Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.
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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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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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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's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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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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