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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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New York City
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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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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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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It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
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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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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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