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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.
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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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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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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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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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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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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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 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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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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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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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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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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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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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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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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