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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford  (Lionel Blue Quotes) I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version  (Lionel Blue Quotes) I still go to a Christian priory for retreats  (Lionel Blue Quotes) To change, to convert? Why bother?  (Lionel Blue Quotes) This Christian poison hasn’t stopped yet  (Lionel Blue Quotes) Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 with Christianity  (Lionel Blue Quotes) I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 up their know-how  (Lionel Blue Quotes) I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get  (Lionel Blue Quotes) In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two  (Lionel Blue Quotes) It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be  (Lionel Blue Quotes) Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 an epileptic.  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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.  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.  (Lionel Blue Quotes) 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 crumbling nicely.  (Lionel Blue Quotes) Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn’t fit  (Lionel Blue Quotes) Jews are just like everyone else, only more so  (Lionel Blue Quotes) Good things come, and I’m not just referring to riding the buses  (Lionel Blue Quotes) So many plusses, so many minuses  (Lionel Blue Quotes)
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