Author Profile
Lionel Blue
1930 – 2016 • British • Clergyman
47
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 47 quotesWhat 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
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.— Lionel Blue
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.— Lionel Blue
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.— Lionel Blue
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.— Lionel Blue
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.— Lionel Blue
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.— Lionel Blue
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.— Lionel Blue
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.— Lionel Blue
I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.— Lionel Blue