Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by William Sloane Coffin (American Presbyterian Clergyman)

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924–2006) was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr’s social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He also was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City and President of SANE/Freeze, the nation’s largest peace and justice group, and prominently opposed United States military interventions in conflicts such as the Vietnam War to the Iraq War. He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights.

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It’s too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That’s the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Sports

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence – reverance for human life and the environment.
William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Violence

I’m not OK, you’re not OK—and that’s OK.
William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Acceptance, Awareness, Realization

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Hope, Motivation

I’m delighted that the future is unsure. That’s the way it should be.
William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Doubt, Uncertainty

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. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure.
William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Justice

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