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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.
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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There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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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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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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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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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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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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 asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
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