Death itself seems not to make a great difference. Certainly man’s eternal destiny is not determined by the act—often the accident—of dying. Spiritua… - Leslie Weatherhead

If Christ can—and he does—hold in utter loyalty the hearts of St. Francis and John Knox, of Calvin and St. Theresa, of General Booth and Pope John, of Billy Graham and Albert Schweitzer, who hold irreconcilably different beliefs about him, how can belief and uniformity of belief be vitally important? Further, where in the Gospels are we ever told that Christ demanded belief in some theological proposition before he would admit a seeker into discipleship?

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.

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