Henry Sloane Coffin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.
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God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.
-- Henry Sloane Coffin
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
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When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!
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You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
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A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.
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Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great.
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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