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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

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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Unsure
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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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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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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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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 love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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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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We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
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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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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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