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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
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New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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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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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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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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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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