Quotes By Lionel Blue

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

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

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

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

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

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.

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.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

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.