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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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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age neither sex nor sexual preference race nor mind-set.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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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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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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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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