Quotes of William Sloane Coffin - somelinesforyou

“ The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Compassion and justice are companions, not choices. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. ”

- William Sloane Coffin Jr.

“ I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ There is nothing antiintellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

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

- William Sloane Coffin

“ The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ I'm not OK, you're not OK, and that's OK. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally… ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

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

- William Sloane Coffin

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

- William Sloane Coffin

“ All of life is the exercise of risk. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap and then you grow wings. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ 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
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