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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.
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 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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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 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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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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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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
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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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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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