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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.

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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Measures
Bigger
Love
Stature

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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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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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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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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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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. 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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