Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
William Sloane CoffinAnd if we are not yet one in live at least we are one in sin, which is no mean bond because it preludes the possibility of separation through judgment.
William Sloane CoffinIt 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...in home after home I have seen Jesus change beer into furniture, sinners into saints, hate-filled relations into loving ones, cowardice into courage, the fatigue of despair into the buoyancy of hope.
William Sloane CoffinAnd if God is a suffering God, if this whole universe is borne on a heart infinite in compassion, then the more we suffer in his name the closer we come to him.
William Sloane CoffinThe joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.
William Sloane CoffinGod provides minimum protection, maximum support--support to help us grow up, to stretch our minds and hearts until they are as wide as God's universe.
William Sloane CoffinJoy is the most important Christian emotion. Duty calls only when gratitude fails to prompt.
William Sloane CoffinThe world owes me a living'--that's passive. 'I owe the world and God a life'--that's active.
William Sloane Coffin[When things go badly] Instead of becoming alienated from their faith in God, wouldn't it make more sense for them to become alienated from their mislaid hopes in human beings, alienated from shallow notions of automatic progress, from sentimental notions about the 'nobility of man'?
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