Lionel Blue Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.”

“My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.”

“It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.”

“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.”