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Lionel Blue Quotes

British - Clergyman | February 6, 1930 - December 19, 2016

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

Old Friends Friends Die You Become

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Me Said More Human Liberalism Just

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Fear Sad Losing Suffering Weakness

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

God Religion Goodness More Years

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.

Experience Society Feel Political

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

Up Oxford Literally Quakers Fell

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

Gay Edge Nervous My Own Open Own

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

Love Best Falling In Love Falling

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

Soul Problems See Seen Spiritually

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.

Sympathy End Stick Pity Lessons

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

Life Home Heaven Now True Here

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.

Life My Life Heaven Things Something

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