... Christ does not bow before the Father in supplication that God will have mercy on his own children, but rather that Christ endlessly is at work with and within man, by all the ways open to love-without coercion, or bribing, or favoritism-to effect a unity, an at-one-ment between man and God. (Leslie Weatherhead)

... Christ does not bow before the Father in supplication that God will have mercy on his own children, but rather that Christ endlessly is at work with and within man, by all the ways open to love-without coercion, or bribing, or favoritism-to effect a unity, an at-one-ment between man and God.

Leslie Weatherhead

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