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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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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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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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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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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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