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"During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school."
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"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
"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."
"What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst."
"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."
"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 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 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."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"
"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
"Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted."
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