Quotes by William Sloane Coffin

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Clergyman and peace activist · American · 1924–2006

American clergyman and peace activist (1924–2006)

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

“I'm not ok - you're not ok and that's ok.”

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

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

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

— William Sloane Coffin Jr., Credo

faith

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

— William Sloane Coffin Jr., Credo

faith

“I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.”

— William Sloane Coffin, Letters to a Young Doubter

feminism liberation man woman

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

— William Sloane Coffin Jr.

chaplain christianity religion religion-and-children

“It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it ...”

— William Sloane Coffin Jr., Credo

action

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

— William Sloane Coffin

doubts uncertainties

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

— William Sloane Coffin

hope

“I'm not ok - you're not ok and that's ok.”

— Rev. William Sloane Coffin

religion

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