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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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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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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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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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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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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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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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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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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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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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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