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

"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."

"Jesus Christ died on the cross for everything you are afraid of."

"In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity."

"It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity."

"It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion."

"My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church."

"Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life."

"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."

"Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught."
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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."

"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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