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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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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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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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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
William Sloane Coffin
The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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