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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
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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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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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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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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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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For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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