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" I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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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" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "

" I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. "

" Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. "

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" It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. "

" I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. "

" I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. "

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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 secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. "

" 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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