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• I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

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  Way, Should, Delighted

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• Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

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  Christian, Good Life, Nice

  William Sloane Coffin (1985). “Living the Truth in a World of Illusions”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

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  Religious, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

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  Sex, Distance, Heart

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.21, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

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  Years, Cry, Professors

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• Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

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  Growing Up, Despair, Growing

  William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.335, Westminster John Knox Press

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• What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

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  Power Of Love

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.7, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Love is in the giver, not the gift.

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  Love, Love Is, Giver

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• Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

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  World, Violence, Violent

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• The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

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  Men, Needs, He Man

  William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.285, Westminster John Knox Press

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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.

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  Blood, Righteousness, God Knows

  William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.499, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

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  Sticks, Necks, Easier

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.18, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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  Taste, Truth Is, Danger

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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  Religious, America, Community

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• It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

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  Sports, Exercise, Risk

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