Lionel Blue Quotes

• I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

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

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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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• 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.

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• I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

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• I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

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• I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

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• 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.

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

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• I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don’t like him much.

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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 encounter with Christianity.

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• 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.

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• I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul’s plusses.

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• 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, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

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• Good things come, and I’m not just referring to riding the buses.

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• For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

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

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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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• Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

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• During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

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Lionel Blue (46)

Birth:	6th February, 1930
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Broadcaster, Clergyman, Director, Journalist, Lecturer, Politician, Rabbi

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