Best Lionel Blue Quotes
- Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. Aquinas
- For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. Devotee
- Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. Cracked
- I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together,… Been
- 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… Accept
- 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… Began
- To change, to convert? Why bother? Bother
- I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. Christianity
- In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. Christian
- If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends… Bat
- I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. Began
- 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… Changed
- I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish… Any
- I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. Another Jew
- I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else. Asked
- When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke. Broke
- 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… Based
- Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. Gave
- Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. Exclusivity
- So many plusses, so many minuses. Many
- It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. Fanaticism
- The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. Acknowledge
- Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. Buses
- I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. Begun
- Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. Bewildered