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I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
- Lionel Blue
#Fear
#Losing
#Sad
#Suffering
#Weakness
I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
- Lionel Blue
#Best
#Falling In Love
#Falling
#Love
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
- Lionel Blue
#Among
#Fell
#Literally
#Oxford
#Up
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
- Lionel Blue
#Christian
#Go
#Retreats
#Still
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
- Lionel Blue
#Human
#Liberalism
#Me
#More
#Only
So many plusses, so many minuses.
- Lionel Blue
#Many
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
- Lionel Blue
#Me
#Never
#New
#Sense
#Someone
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.
- Lionel Blue
#Encounter
#Heaven
#Life
#My Life
#Owe
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
- Lionel Blue
#Age
#Good
#Mother
#Old Age
#Old
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
- Lionel Blue
#Dance
#Day
#Fast
#Religion
#Sun
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
- Lionel Blue
#Edge
#Gay
#My Own
#Own
#Sexuality
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.
- Lionel Blue
#Far
#Ghetto
#Go
#Shame
#Thought
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
- Lionel Blue
#Acknowledge
#More
#Spiritual
#World
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
- Lionel Blue
#Die
#Irreplaceable
#Old Friends
#Old
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
- Lionel Blue
#End
#Lecture
#Lessons
#Like
#Pity
#Sympathy
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.
- Lionel Blue
#Christmas
#Evidence
#How
#Manifest
#Real
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
- Lionel Blue
#Birthday
#Enemies
#Surprise
#Than
#Wish
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