Thoughts from an Activist

Here are some thought from the famous Christian activist and intellectual William Sloan Coffin, who died last year:
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God is not to hard to believe in, he is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness.

Almost every square inch of the earth's surface is soaked with the tears and blood of the innocent. It's not God's doing, its our doing. That's human malpractice. Don't chalk it up to God.

If you back off from every little controversy in your life, you're not alive, and once more, your boring.

You can be more alive in pain then in complacency.

Only God has the right to destroy all life on the planet. All we have is the power. We haven't the authority. Therefore to make, to threaten to use nuclear weapons must be an abomination in the sight of God.

To say 'grant us peace' in a time of war, God must say 'Come off it!" What are you going to do for peace for heaven sake? Its not enough to pray for it, you have to think for it, you have to suffer for it and you have endure a lot for it. So don't just pray about it.