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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.

— Leslie Weatherhead The Christian Agnostic (1965)

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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.

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