Lionel Blue

Clergyman

1930-02-06

Books by Lionel Blue

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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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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.
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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.
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
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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.
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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.
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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
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To change, to convert? Why bother?
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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.
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