Quotes by William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

Godly

Spiritual

Trying

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

Charity

Compassion

Justice

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

Mind

Sin

Sins Not

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

Christian

Good Life

Nice

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word – to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

Christian

Honor

World

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

Decision

Morality

Selfish

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

Handle

Incongruity

Life Humor

Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom…. Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one–neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

Distance

Heart

Sex

God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

Blood

God Knows

Righteousness

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart’s full of hope, you can be persistent when you can’t be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I’m not optimistic, I’m always very hopeful.

Heart

Independent

Optimistic

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America

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Believe

Bible

Biblical

Bigger

Blind

Blood

Charity

Christian

Community

Compassion

Conflict

Cost

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Danger

Daughter

Decision

Disorder

Distance

Doors

Effects

Environment

Exercise

Feet

Force

Gay

Giver

God

God Knows

Godly

Good Life

Greatest Love

Handle

He Man

Heart

Honor

Humans

Ignorance

Important

Incongruity

Independent

Individual

Injustice

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Quotes by William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

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

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word – to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

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