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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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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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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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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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age neither sex nor sexual preference race nor mind-set.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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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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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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