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I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. (Lionel Blue)
I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. View quote
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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. View quote
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. View quote
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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. View quote
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. View quote
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It's more fun to watch without joining in. View quote
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. View quote
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What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. (Lionel Blue)
To change, to convert? Why bother? View quote
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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. View quote
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This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. View quote
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Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. View quote
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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. View quote
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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. View quote
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Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. View quote
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So many plusses, so many minuses. View quote
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It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. View quote
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I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. (Lionel Blue)
Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. View quote
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Lionel Blue

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Photo: Open Media Ltd, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: British Clergyman
Born: February 6, 1930
Died: December 19, 2016
Quotes count: 47