Henry Sloane Coffin Born : January 5, 1877 Died : November 25, 1954 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Henry Sloane Coffin 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. Henry Sloane Coffin characteristics worship needs 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 spiritual god order