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Lionel Blue Quotes
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! - Lionel Blue Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didnt fit. - Lionel Blue Quotes
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. - Lionel Blue Quotes
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. - Lionel Blue Quotes
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. - Lionel Blue Quotes
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. - Lionel Blue Quotes
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. - Lionel Blue Quotes
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. - Lionel Blue Quotes
Good things come, and Im not just referring to riding the buses. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasnt been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my souls plusses. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I didnt want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didnt want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. - Lionel Blue Quotes
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 Blue Quotes
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 Quotes
I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I dont like him much. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons cant be learnt in lecture halls. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didnt have to go very far to pick up their know-how. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. - Lionel Blue Quotes
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. - Lionel Blue Quotes
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. - Lionel Blue Quotes
It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. - Lionel Blue Quotes
It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. - Lionel Blue Quotes
Its more fun to watch without joining in. - Lionel Blue Quotes
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Miracles More Myths Once Only Ordinary Physical
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