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I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
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It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.
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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
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Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
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I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
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So many plusses, so many minuses.
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I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.
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For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
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I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
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I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
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The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
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The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
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