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 Copy Share Image
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 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
