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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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Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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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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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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The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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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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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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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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