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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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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, Let justice roll down like mighty waters, and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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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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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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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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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
William Sloane Coffin
We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
William Sloane Coffin
Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
William Sloane Coffin
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
William Sloane Coffin
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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