#be

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#being #her #him #loved #lover

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

— Lionel Blue

#best #could #falling #falling in love #get

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #authors #books #bookstore #certainty

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#better #burn #deed #far #far away

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

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

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #faces #fit #had #me

Better to be disliked than pitied. ↗

— Abba Eban

#disliked #pitied #than

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