I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda AmichaiThe world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda AmichaiHere (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
Yehuda Amichai