"I literally fell among Quakers when I went…" — Lionel Blue
"I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford."
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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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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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For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this…
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things,…
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with…
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