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

- 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.

- William Sloane Coffin

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of…

- William Sloane Coffin

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 …

- 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 hi…

- William Sloane Coffin

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

- William Sloane Coffin

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…

- William Sloane Coffin

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, national…

- William Sloane Coffin

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

- William Sloane Coffin