Lionel Blue Quotes

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• The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
• My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am…
• To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on…
• Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
• 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 lecture…
• During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
• For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
• I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
• It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
• It's more fun to watch without joining in.
• Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
• 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…
• For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
• I still go to a Christian priory for 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…
• The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
• This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
• 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,…
• I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
• I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

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