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"I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."
"Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me."
"My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston."
"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off."
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