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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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New York City
New York
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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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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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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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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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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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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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