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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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Pastor
New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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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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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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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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Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.
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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 have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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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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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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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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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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