#k

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#cracked #early #i #idolatry #open

Better to be disliked than pitied. ↗

— Abba Eban

#disliked #pitied #than

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#acted #books #now #time #world

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

— Lionel Blue

#deserted #favour #god #goodness #i

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#been #cancel #comfortable #each #gay

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. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#fear #fed #fed up #i #jewish

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. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #did #encounter #found #happened

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#him #i #like #much #paul

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. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#halls #i #learnt #lecture #lessons

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

— Lionel Blue

#fell #i #literally #oxford #quakers