"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made……" — Lionel Blue
"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off."
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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 Exclusivity Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.
— Howard G. Hendricks
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Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love…
— Dean Spade
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Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.
— Linda Kaplan Thaler
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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest…
— Peter Gabriel
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Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you…
— Twyla Tharp
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Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Even if you haven't had the exclusivity conversation, they're still going to be mad if they find out you're dating…
— Cassandra Clare
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Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But…
— John Green
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There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well,…
— Jiah Khan
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Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public,…
— Alex Berenson
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