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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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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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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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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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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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