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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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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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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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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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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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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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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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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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