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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
New York
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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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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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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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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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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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