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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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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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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
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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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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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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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