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All of life is the exercise of risk.

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
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Life
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Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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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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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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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