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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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Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is…
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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract…
— Michelangelo
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Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark…
— Hesiod
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The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments…
— Harold B. Lee
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the…
— Kate Elliott
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