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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.
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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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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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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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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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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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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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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