Pastoral Resources

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.

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

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

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.

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.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

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

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

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

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

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

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.

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.