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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.
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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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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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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
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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 not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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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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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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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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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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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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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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