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William Sloane Coffin Quotes

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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) ...for if you lessen your anger at the structures of power, you lower your love for the victims of power.  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) 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  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It’s time we did the same for homophobia  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it’s a crutch. What makes you think you don’t limp?  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) 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.  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) All of life is the exercise of risk  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Love is in the giver, not the gift  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) We put our best foot forward, but it’s the other one that needs the attention  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) I’m delighted that the future is unsure. That’s the way it should be  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) It’s so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) If your heart is full of fear, you won’t seek truth; you’ll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes) It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement  (William Sloane Coffin Quotes)
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