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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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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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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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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
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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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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, Let justice roll down like mighty waters, and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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