"An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said……" — Lionel Blue
"An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!"
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50 Quotes by Lionel Blue
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in…
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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…
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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…
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons…
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom…
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
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It's more fun to watch without joining in.
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils…
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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection…
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
— Julie Bishop
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
— David Bowie
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with…
— George Washington Carver
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the…
— John Ciardi
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
— Virginia Woolf
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
— Geronimo
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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