Quote by Lionel Blue

“For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.”

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Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

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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…

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I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

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I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my…

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Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into…

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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement…

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So many plusses, so many minuses.

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I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

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It's more fun to watch without joining in.

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For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

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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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