Top 47 Quotes by Lionel Blue

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

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.

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 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.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

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

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

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.