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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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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New York City
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. 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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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
William Sloane Coffin
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.
William Sloane Coffin
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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