101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship ☰

Lionel Blue

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

— Lionel Blue christianity

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

— Lionel Blue you

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 work

Its more fun to watch without joining in.

— Lionel Blue fun

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her Ive begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far Ive had it good and am crumbling nicely.

— Lionel Blue art

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

Old friends die on you, and theyre irreplaceable. You become dependent.

— Lionel Blue friends

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.

— Lionel Blue time

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

— Lionel Blue christianity

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.

— Lionel Blue life

So many plusses, so many minuses.

— Lionel Blue man

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

— Lionel Blue men

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

— Lionel Blue art

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

— Lionel Blue love

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians.

— Lionel Blue christianity

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 christianity

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

— Lionel Blue knowledge

This Christian poison hasnt stopped yet.

— Lionel Blue christian

To change, to convert? Why bother?

— Lionel Blue change

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldnt wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

— Lionel Blue enemies

What would I have done if Id 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

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 travel

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 birth

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didnt fit.

— Lionel Blue christianity

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

— Lionel Blue art

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

— Lionel Blue war

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

— Lionel Blue religion

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

— Lionel Blue god

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

— Lionel Blue love

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

— Lionel Blue god

Good things come, and Im not just referring to riding the buses.

— Lionel Blue good

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 world

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my souls plusses.

— Lionel Blue soul

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 fear

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 christian

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 life

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I dont like him much.

— Lionel Blue path

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

— Lionel Blue christianity

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 path

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

— Lionel Blue

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

— Lionel Blue

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

— Lionel Blue christian

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 christian

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

— Lionel Blue sex

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

— Lionel Blue love

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

— Lionel Blue worship

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

— Lionel Blue man

Share your thoughts on Lionel Blue quotes with the community:

Next

Maybe you are looking for Lionel Blue quotes, Lionel Blue sayings?

Here are quotes most suitable for various topics. In the web you can find use by keywords: quotes Lionel Blue Lionel Blue quotes Lionel Blue sayings Lionel Blue famous quotes Lionel Blue best quotes