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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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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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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
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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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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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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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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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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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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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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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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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