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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, Let justice roll down like mighty waters, and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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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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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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 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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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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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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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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The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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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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