Lionel Blue Quotes

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

Among, Oxford, Fell

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

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
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Christian, Retreats

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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Thought, Christian, Far

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

Gay, Open, Nervous

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
Lionel Blue

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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Jesus, Two, Speak

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.
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Possible, Result, Fanaticism

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

Good, Full, Early

It's more fun to watch without joining in.
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Fun, Watch, Joining

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 Blue

Religion, Mother, Woman

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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Family, Decent, Neutral

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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Life, Home, True

So many plusses, so many minuses.
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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Lionel Blue

Made, Put, Sense

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
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Someone, Made, Before

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
Lionel Blue

Love, Religion, Christian

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.
Lionel Blue

Real, Him, Jesus

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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Spiritual, Thinks, Cares

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
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Christian, Poison, Hasn

To change, to convert? Why bother?
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Change, Why, Bother

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.
Lionel Blue

Life, Best, Evil

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: February 6, 1930

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