Lionel Blue Quotes

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Lionel Blue

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : February 6, 1930

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

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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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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

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The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.

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

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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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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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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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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

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

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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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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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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.

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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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This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

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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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To change, to convert? Why bother?

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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

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

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