William Sloane Coffin Quotes about Love

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Love, Life, Truth

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, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

William Sloane Coffin

Love, Life, Country

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It 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 Coffin

Love, God, Loneliness

William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

William Sloane Coffin

Love, Laughing, World

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.

William Sloane Coffin

Love, Bigger, Stature

William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.24, Westminster John Knox Press

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.

William Sloane Coffin

Love, Doors, Order