Lionel Blue Quotes

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• If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

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  Confidence, Names, Self

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• In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

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  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

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  Giving, Problem, Said

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

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  Spiritual, Thinking, World

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• Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

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  Jew

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• 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.

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  Birthday, Mother, Age

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• 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.

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  Heaven, Encounters, Sake

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• I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

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  Religious, Taken, Ghetto

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• 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.

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  Christian, Ghetto, Shame

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• 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.

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  Christian, Giving, Political

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• When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

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  Inspirational, Compassion, Self Improvement

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• 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.

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  Birthday, Enemy, Wish

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

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  Oxford, Quaker

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• 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.

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  Christmas, Christian, Jesus

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

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  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Mother

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• I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

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  Soul, Problem, My Soul

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• 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.

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  Sympathy, Lessons, Lectures

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

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  Years, Republic, Kingdoms

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• I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

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  Grateful, Reform, Christianity

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• I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

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  Jew, Comfortable

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• What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

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  Sorry, People, Evil

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• On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

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  Girl, Way, Return

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• Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

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  Old Friends, Irreplaceable, Dependent

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• I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

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  Gay, Nervous, Sexuality

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