Winston Churchill on Our Spiritual Heritage

"There's an extraordinary passage by Churchill in a speech he gave in Jerusalem in 1921, which dumbfounds me every time I read it. He said,
'We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics, which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.'

That's an extraordinary thing to say, especially in public."


and it could bear saying again......