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

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" Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. "

" 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. "

" In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. "

" Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. "

" I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. "

" On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned. "

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

" An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! "

" Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life. "

" To change, to convert? Why bother? "

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

" Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. "

" It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. "

" 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. "

" During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. "

" At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. "

" I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. "

" The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. "

" Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. "

" My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. "

" It's more fun to watch without joining in. "

" So many plusses, so many minuses. "