Lionel Blue Quotes
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This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
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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.
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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.
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
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My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
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I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.
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Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
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I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
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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.
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
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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.
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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
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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.
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An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
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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.
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
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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.
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What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
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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.
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To change, to convert? Why bother?
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When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.
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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.
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