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1893–1976 England

Leslie Dixon Weatherhead (14 October 1893 – 5 January 1976) was an English Christian theologian in the liberal Protestant tradition. He served as minister of the City Temple, London, for nearly twenty-five years.

England
Theologians

Also known as: Leslie D. Weatherhead, Leslie Dixon Weatherhead, The Christian Agnostic

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Why do men hug words to their hearts after the living truth has long since fled from them?

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Any man, to the extent to which he is good, reveals the nature of God.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

I believe that all men, whatever their religion or lack of it, pass on into another phase of being, to another class in God’s school.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Christianity must have a marvelous inherent power or the churches would have killed it long ago.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

There is no authority for God’s existence except the inward conviction that is born of mystical experience.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

All lovers of Christ can believe in him without believing the same things about him.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

We still make of prime importance matters about which Jesus said nothing. How can a matter be fundamental in a religion when the founder of the religion never mentioned it?

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Every denomination within organized Christianity contains a valuable truth, but none contains all truth. Each mirrors at its best something of Christ but all are only caricatures of him.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

To acclaim that the Bible contains the Word of God is not to say that all its words are the words of God.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

We must seek another interpretation of the cross, and at the same time we must realize that the generations ahead will discard our interpretations.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Faith in God includes faith in those who help God.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Of course, the human soul will always have the power to reject God, for choice is essential to its nature, but I cannot believe that anyone will finally do this.”

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

There is not one judgment day, surely, but a thousand! Every time we confront beauty, truth, goodness or love, our response to them judges us.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

In the cases of nearly all of us, what our fathers were, we are, and we make up our reasons afterwards.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

The factor that makes us question the authority of the expert is that we are personally emotionally involved in the result.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

I hold that the self-authentication of truth, or, in other words, seeing, is the authority, and the only authority there is in the field of religion.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

In my opinion, the strongest evidence of his sinlessness is that, if one had sinned, unless one were vicious, one would never let others think one sinless.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

In fact, many professing agnostics are nearer belief in the true God than are many conventional church-goers who believe in a body that does not exist whom they miscall God.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Christianity is a love relationship with Christ far below—or above, if you like—differences of belief or different ways of worshiping, far above differences of language or of color.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

No honest mind can exclude doubt, or ignore criticism, or shut its ears against reason. And if we could do these things we should be left, not with faith, but with a head-in-the-sand superstition.

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leslie Weatherhead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.