My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
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… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
