"What is faith? Faith is being grasped by…" — William Sloane Coffin
"What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love."
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49 Quotes by William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin has 49 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life…
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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…
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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…
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the…
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in…
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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