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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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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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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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