Lionel Blue Quotes - Page 2

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• Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

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  Saws, Idolatry, Reefs

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• For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

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  Lovers, Devotee

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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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  Song, Suffering, Sides

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• To change, to convert? Why bother?

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  Bother, Converting, Why Bother

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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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  Religious, Book, Class

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• Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

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  Comeback, Insult, Discrimination

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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!

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  Ordinary, Said, Jew

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• The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

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  Christian, Use, Affair

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

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Alaska

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• I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

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  Judaism, Infant, Versions

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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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  Home, Heaven, Church

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

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  War, Home, School

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• This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

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  Christian, Poison

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

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  People, Devil, Good Christian

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• I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

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  Christian, Retreat, Stills

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• Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

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  Miracle, Casting, Birth

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• It's more fun to watch without joining in.

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  Fun, Joining In, Watches

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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.

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  Eggs, Meat, Good Work

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