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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
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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
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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.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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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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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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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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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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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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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
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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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