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William Sloane Coffin has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to…
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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…
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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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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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…
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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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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…
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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…
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and…
— Pope John Paul II
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a…
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And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all,…
— Errico Malatesta
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Robots touch something deeply human within us. Â For me, robots are all about people.
— Cynthia Breazeal
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
— William Sloane Coffin
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
— Alan Lightman
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation…
— Brennan Manning
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We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
— Virginia Woolf
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What…
— Carl Sagan
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