William Sloane Coffin Quotes

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.

William Sloane Coffin

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• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Law
  • Me
  • Seems

• When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Free
  • My Life

• We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Bigger
  • Overcome
  • Hurdles

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Great
  • School
  • Education

• I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Children
  • May
  • Parents

• We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Time
  • World
  • Understand

• Everybody likes a compliment.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Everybody
  • Compliment
  • Likes

• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Health
  • Care
  • Year

• I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Talk
  • Well
  • Sit

• Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Degree

• The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • America
  • Citizenship

• I was afraid to express myself for a while.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Express

• ...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...

  

  Billy Joel
  • Hide
  • Hard Times
  • Refined

• We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Family
  • Distance
  • Blood

• Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Man
  • Blood
  • Sheddeth

• Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive

  

  Kay Bojesen
  • Heart
  • Humans
  • Blood

• 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.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Blood
  • Sinner
  • Righteousness