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Lionel Blue's Profile

Brief about Lionel Blue: By info that we know Lionel Blue was born at 1930-02-06. And also Lionel Blue is British Clergyman.

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I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

Tags: Another, Jew

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

Tags: Jesus, Possible, Speak

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

Tags: Early, Full, Good

It's more fun to watch without joining in.

Tags: Fun, Joining, Watch

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Tags: Decent, Family, Neutral

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

Tags: Home, Life, True

So many plusses, so many minuses.

Tags: Put, Sense, Wonderful

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

Tags: Read, Sense, Someone

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Tags: Christian, Love, Religion

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

Tags: Cares, Spiritual, Thinks

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

Tags: Christian, Hasn, Poison

To change, to convert? Why bother?

Tags: Bother, Change, Why

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

Tags: Book, Progress, Religious

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.

Tags: Miracles, Physical, Whether

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.

Tags: Gay, Religious, Together

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.

Tags: Fear, Sad, Suffering

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.

Tags: Experience, Political, Society

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.

Tags: Found, Heaven, Life

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.

Tags: Mother, Religion, Woman

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.

Tags: Him, Jesus, Real
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