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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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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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