William Sloane Coffin Jr. Quotes

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

- William Sloane Coffin Jr.

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