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

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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

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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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It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

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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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I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

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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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It's more fun to watch without joining in.

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I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

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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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To change, to convert? Why bother?

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