Top 47 Quotes by Lionel Blue

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.