Citas de Lionel Blue

• If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

  Lionel Azul

  Confidence, Names, Self

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• In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

  Lionel Azul

  Cristiano, Jesús, Pensamiento

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• I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

  Lionel Azul

  Giving, Problem, Said

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• The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

  Lionel Azul

  Espiritual, Pensamiento, Mundo

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• Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

  Lionel Azul

  Judío

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• Mi madre disfrutaba de la vejez y, gracias a ella, yo también he empezado a disfrutar de partes de ella. Hasta ahora lo he pasado bien y me estoy desmoronando.

  Lionel Azul

  Birthday, Mother, Age

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• Descubrí que cuando hacía algo por el bien del cielo, el cielo sucedía. Estas cosas cambiaron mi vida. Se las debo a mi encuentro con el cristianismo.

  Lionel Azul

  Heaven, Encounters, Sake

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• 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 Azul

  Religious, Taken, Ghetto

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• I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

  Lionel Azul

  Christian, Ghetto, Shame

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• 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.

  Lionel Azul

  Christian, Giving, Political

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• When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

  Lionel Azul

  Inspirational, Compassion, Self Improvement

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• Para mi sorpresa, mis 70 años son más agradables que mis 60 y mis 60 que mis 50, y no desearía mis años de adolescencia y 20 a mis enemigos.

  Lionel Azul

  Birthday, Enemy, Wish

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• Literalmente caí entre cuáqueros cuando fui a Oxford.

  Lionel Azul

  Oxford, Quaker

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• La verdadera prueba de Jesús y del cristianismo está en cómo Jesús y el cristianismo basado en él se manifiestan en la vida de los cristianos practicantes.

  Lionel Azul

  Christmas, Christian, Jesus

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

  Lionel Azul

  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

  Lionel Azul

  Inspirational, Dance, Mother

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

  Lionel Azul

  Soul, Problem, My Soul

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• Aprendí a sentir lástima, compasión y lo que es estar en el otro extremo del palo. Esas lecciones no se aprenden en las aulas.

  Lionel Azul

  Sympathy, Lessons, Lectures

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• Durante algunos años abandoné la religión en favor del marxismo. La república del bien parecía más alcanzable que el Reino de Dios.

  Lionel Azul

  Years, Republic, Kingdoms

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• I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

  Lionel Azul

  Grateful, Reform, Christianity

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• I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

  Lionel Azul

  Jew, Comfortable

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• ¿Qué habría hecho yo si me hubieran puesto a prueba? ¿Habría arriesgado mi propia vida por gente a la que apenas conocía? Probablemente, en el mejor de los casos habría mirado hacia otro lado o, en el peor, me habría convertido en otro apologista del mal.

  Lionel Azul

  Sorry, People, Evil

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• On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

  Lionel Azul

  Girl, Way, Return

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• Los viejos amigos se te mueren y son insustituibles. Te vuelves dependiente.

  Lionel Azul

  Old Friends, Irreplaceable, Dependent

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

  Lionel Azul

  Gay, Nervous, Sexuality

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