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Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

William Stringfellow

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William Stringfellow
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 28
Died: 1985
Died: March 2
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