“I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end o...” — Lionel Blue Quote

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.

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.

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

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

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

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.