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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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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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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. 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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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