Lionel Blue Quotes

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. - Lionel Blue

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. - Lionel Blue

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

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. - Lionel Blue

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. - Lionel Blue

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. - Lionel Blue

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 halls. - Lionel Blue

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

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. - Lionel Blue

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

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