William Sloane Coffin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.”
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“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”
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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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“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”
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“A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.”
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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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“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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“I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.”
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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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“It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.”
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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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“Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.”
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“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.”
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“Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize.”
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“We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.”
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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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“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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“It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.”
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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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“We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.”
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“We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.”
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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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“Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation”
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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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“All of life is the exercise of risk.”
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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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“Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.”
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“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.”
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“Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?”
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