#us

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

— Lionel Blue

#beings #bit #crazed #human #human beings

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#classes #encountered #i #instruction #john

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#birth #casting #demons #i #into

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#during #encountered #home #households #i

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christian #fully #god #himself #jesus

So many plusses, so many minuses. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#minuses #plusses

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#come #good #good things #i #just

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

— Lionel Blue

#i #plusses #problems #really #see

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#always #autographs #because #books #carried