"My mother was a modern woman with a……" — Lionel Blue
"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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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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More Atonement Quotes
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
— Lord Byron
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Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His…
— J C Ryle
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There are some who believe that because they have made mistakes, they can no longer fully partake of the blessings…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That…
— A C Dixon
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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents,…
— H.G. Wells
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People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
— Thomas Perez
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I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I am so profoundly grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ, for a testimony of the Atonement of the Savior.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The plan of salvation could not be brought about without an atonement... The atoning sacrifice had to be carried out…
— C. Scott Grow
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The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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