Quotes By Lionel Blue

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

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.

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

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

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.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

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.

So many plusses, so many minuses.

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

It's more fun to watch without joining in.