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"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."
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"If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god's favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity."

"Live every day in the full expression of God's grace in this coming year."

"The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."

"Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand)."
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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 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."

"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."

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

"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."
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