Pastoral Resources

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.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.