"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."

Home, Life, Churches, Heaven

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"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."

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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."

Keren Ann, Israeli Musician

Home, Bed, Paris

"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Home, Truth, Wisdom, Memory, Today

"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

Layne Staley, American Musician

Home,

"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire, French Writer

Home, Books, Fire, Property

"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Joy, Kindness, Laughter

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

Cornelia Funke, German Author

Home, Kids

"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."

Layne Staley, American Musician

Home, Life

"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."

Christopher Fry, English Playwright

Home,

"So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Home, Memory, Change, Nostalgia

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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."

Progress

"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."

Experience

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

Love

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

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

Fun

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

Test

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

Judaism

"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."

Religion

"To change, to convert? Why bother?"

Change

"I still go to a Christian priory for retreats."

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