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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

William Sloane Coffin

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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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Grasped
Faith
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Love

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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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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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The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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