Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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 CoffinLove 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 CoffinChristians 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.
William Sloane Coffin