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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
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New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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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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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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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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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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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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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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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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