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" I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. "

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

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

" Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. "

" Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. "

" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "

" This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. "

" For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. "

" 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. "

" I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" To change, to convert? Why bother? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 still go to a Christian priory for retreats. "

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

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

" I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. "

" 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. "

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

" I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how. "

" I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. "