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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

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Loved, Her, Always, Worshipped

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

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Fell, Oxford, Literally, Quakers

To change, to convert? Why bother?

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Change, Why, Bother, Convert

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

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War, Christianity, World War, Households

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

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Again, Idolatry, Saw, Cracked

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

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Christian, Go, Still, Retreats

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

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Grateful, Reform, Ended, Rabbi

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

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More, Jews, Liberalism, Rabbi

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

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Die, Old, Irreplaceable, Dependent

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.

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More, Side, Fed, Timidity

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.

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Own, Other, Been, Hardly

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.

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Young, Which, Young Girls, Satisfying

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

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Eggs, Admitted, Works, Good Works

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

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Like, Turned, Chambers, Decent People

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

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Book, Religious, Classes, Traveller

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

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Come, Things, Referring, Buses

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

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Birth, Myths, Marxism, Demons

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

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World, Cares, Acknowledge, Materialist

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

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Some, Republic, Marxism, Deserted

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

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Sexuality, My Own, Certainly, Perplexed

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.

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Evidence, Based, Christians, Practising

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

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Christian, Himself, Jesus, Fully

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

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Love, Christian, Use, Affair

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

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Old, Begun, Nicely, Crumbling

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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Woman, Set, Limited, Charleston

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

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Other, Pity, Like, Learnt

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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Discover, Here, Began, Privately

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.

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Political, Feel, Other, Open Society

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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My Life, Christianity, Them, Encounter

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

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Against, Read, Martin Luther, Discrimination

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