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" An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! "
Said
Only
Liberalism
" At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. "
Sincerity
Instruction
Progress
" 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. "
Birth
Myths
Miracles
" Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. "
Faces
Two
Pictures
" Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. "
Jews
Against
Insults
" During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. "
World
Home
School
" Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. "
Again
Early
Idolatry
" For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. "
Way
Christian
God
" For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. "
Him
Will
Her
" For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. "
Religion
God
Goodness
" Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. "
Just
Good
Things
" 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. "
Now
World
Together
" I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. "
Seen
Soul
See
" 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. "
Sad
Weakness
Losing
" 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. "
Political
Society
Experience
" 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. "
Encounter
My Life
Things
" I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. "
Understand
Much
Like
" I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. "
Good
Grateful
Things
" 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. "
Stick
Sympathy
Pity
" I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. "
Among
Up
Quakers
" In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. "
Two
Think
Speak
" I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. "
Recovered
Judaism
Infant
" I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. "
Christian
Retreats
Still
" 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. "
Go
Christian
Ghetto
" It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. "
Fanaticism
Know
Possible
" It's more fun to watch without joining in. "
More
Watch
Fun
" It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. "
Early
Eggs
Good
" I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. "
Open
Nervous
Edge
" I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. "
Love
Falling
Best
" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "
Worshipping
Another
Jew
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