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

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

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

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

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

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

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