--- title: "1 Christianity Good Quotes By Lionel Blue" description: "1 Christianity Good quotes by Lionel Blue. Plus more from Lionel Blue and more Christianity Good sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/lionel-blue-13131_blessed_i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful_395544.jpg" --- > [I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful-to-christianity-for-so-many/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/lionel-blue-13131_blessed_i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful_395544.jpg) ## More by Lionel Blue > [Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/someone-gave-me-a-new-testament-i-had-never-before-read-it/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-thought-of-such-christian-inventions-as-the-ghetto-and-the-jewish/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-was-not-comfortable-worshipping-another-jew/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-found-that-when-i-did-something-for-the-sake-of-heaven-heaven/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/praying-privately-in-churches-i-began-to-discover-that-heaven-was-my/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/my-mother-was-a-modern-woman-with-a-limited-interest-in-religion-when/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [So many plusses, so many minuses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/so-many-plusses-so-many-minuses/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful-to-christianity-for-so-many/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [It's more fun to watch without joining in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/it-s-more-fun-to-watch-without-joining-in/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/for-a-christian-jesus-is-the-unique-and-only-way-that-god-has-fully/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/pious-xii-was-too-neutral-to-mention-the-gas-chambers-decent-people/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-was-certainly-open-for-something-being-on-the-edge-of-a-nervous/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/the-real-evidence-is-not-practically-speaking-in-scholarship-but-in/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-learnt-pity-sympathy-and-what-it-was-like-to-be-at-the-other-end-of/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) > [I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-was-not-allowed-a-physical-lover-falling-in-love-with-love-was-the/) [Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity-good/lionel-blue/#itemlist", "name": "1 Christianity Good Quotes By Lionel Blue", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lionel Blue" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful-to-christianity-for-so-many/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/lionel-blue-13131_blessed_i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful_395544.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/lionel-blue-13131_blessed_i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful_395544.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/lionel-blue-13131_blessed_i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful_395544.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.” — Lionel Blue", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity-good/lionel-blue/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity-good/lionel-blue/", "name": "Christianity Good Quotes by Lionel Blue", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity-good/lionel-blue/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/lionel-blue-13131_blessed_i-have-ended-as-a-reform-rabbi-grateful_395544.jpg" }, "description": "1 Christianity Good quotes by Lionel Blue. 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