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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. View quote
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. View quote
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. View quote
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. View quote
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In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. View quote
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The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. (Lionel Blue)
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. View quote
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. View quote
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. View quote
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I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. View quote
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I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. View quote
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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. View quote
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An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! View quote
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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. (Lionel Blue)
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. View quote
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. View quote
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I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. View quote
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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. View quote
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