William Sloane Coffin Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Honor, World

  William Sloane Coffin (2012). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.62, UPNE

• 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.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

• Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Sins Not, Mind, Sin

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

• For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Punishment, Rejection

  William Sloane Coffin “A Passion for the Possible”, Westminster John Knox Press

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