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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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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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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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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.
William Sloane Coffin
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
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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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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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
William Sloane Coffin
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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
William Sloane Coffin
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
William Sloane Coffin
