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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

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
Jr.
Nuclear
Weapons
Religious
Unequivocal
Condemnation
Merit

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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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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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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
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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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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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