"I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure."

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Source : "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

Leslie Weatherhead

#Believe Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.”
“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.
“For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.”
“Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.”
“You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.”
“Close your eyes, they'll never see your vision”

Source : Song: I'm Gone, Album: Careless World: Rise Of The Last King
“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread”
“The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.”

Source : Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.182, University of Iowa Press

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